Ian McEwan is a critically acclaimed British author of novels and short stories. His novels include Amsterdam (1998), which won the 1998 Booker Prize, Atonement (2007), and Machines Like Me (2019), which was a number-one bestseller. Four of his novels, Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have been adapted into films.
Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan
Atonement
Ian McEwan
From Atonement
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Ian McEwan
On Ideas and Inspiration
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Robbie’s Letter to Cecilia
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Ian McEwan
On the Writing Process
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Nurses Training at The Queen’s Institute Of District Nursing
Guildford, Surrey, 1944
Dunkirk
The Tape of Ian McEwan’s Father’s Story
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Inspiration for Atonement
L P Hartley, The Go Between
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Atonement
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Atonement
Ian McEwan
From Atonement
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Atonement
It’s the summer of 1935, and young Briony sees her older sister Cecilia plunge nearly naked into the fountain of their country house, while Robbie Turner, the housekeeper’s son, is watching. From that moment, their lives will never be the same. Atonement is the tragically compelling story of two lovers fallen victims of a young girl’s scheming imagination, and a dreadful crime for which Briony will attempt to atone for the rest of her life.
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