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Atonement

Ian McEwan

On the hottest day of summer 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony misreads a moment between her sister and the housekeeper's son, and her mistake follows them all into the war

  • Literary fiction
  • Heartbreaking
  • Atmospheric
  • Forbidden love
  • Grief & loss
  • Unreliable narrator
  • Slow & immersive
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