Atonement
Last year, I started to read some novels by Ian McEwan, one of the most prestigious and best-selling authors in the UK at present. I read Saturday first, and when Atonement was made into a successful film I decided it would be my second choice.
To quote from Wikipedia, ‘Time magazine named it the best fiction novel of the year and included it in its All-TIME 100 Greatest Novels, and The Observer cites it as one of the 100 best novels written, calling it “a contemporary classic of mesmerising narrative conviction”‘ .
It is a complex novel which is told from different points of view. The main characters are Cecilia Tallis, her sister Briony, and Robbie Turner, whose relationship with Cecilia is tragically ended after he is accused of a sexual crime.
I very much enjoyed both the novel and the film. Now you can watch a short interview with Keira Knightley and James McAvoy, who play Cecilia and Robbie in this brilliant blockbuster, or go here to do an activity about it.
