Product Description

Film tie-in edition

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1008 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-09
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Observer
`Impressive'

Eve Magazine
'One of the great unrequited love stories.'

The Times
"Atonement is a masterpiece...it is also an elegy to a time which, however volatile, still had certainties."

Customer Reviews

Atonement
This is one of the best books I have ever read.It really brought home the horrors of war to me & left me thinking about this subject for a long time afterwards.This is something I did not expect from the book especially at the beginning when I felt it a little slow. If anyone is tempted to quit this book after the first few chapters I would strongly advise agaist it. I was very sad to finish it.

VERY disappointing
If this book is the best of Ewan's, I really don't want to read the others, cause this one was really boring, and disappointing. I read it till the end because I wanted to know where it would lead...and really: it gets us nowhere at all. And the little girl, destroying the life of 2 people, wasn't a character I liked at all, especially at the end. I really don't see her action as "atonement", but as a mark of her egoticism, which was obvious even at the beginning. Having read the book, I don't want to see the film!

Disappointed
After reading all the rave reviews, I was expecting something a lot better than this. The characters seem flat, the plot sluggish and the ending no reward for having ploughed through the previous pages.