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have instead been Paul
Marshall, who has a long scratch on his face. Briony relays the contents of the letter to Lola, who labels Robbie a "maniac," re-affirming Briony's feelings. Robbie arrives at the main house for a family dinner party, and is confronted by Cecilia. He confesses his feelings to her, and she responds in kind. Later the same evening, Briony walks in on Robbie and Cecilia having sex in the library. The immature Briony believes she interrupted a vicious assault on Cecilia, and stands stunned while Robbie and Cecilia quickly exit.
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being raped by an assailant neither girl can clearly see. The attacker flees. Briony, convinced that it must have been Robbie, gets Lola to agree that she likely heard Robbie's voice. The girls return home, and Briony identifies Robbie to the police as the rapist, claiming she saw his face in the dark. Lola is sedated by the local doctor, Cecilia screams at Briony and locks herself in her room, and Paul
Marshall shares cigarettes with the policemen.
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371:– The middle child in the Tallis family, Cecilia has fallen in love with her childhood companion, Robbie Turner. After a tense encounter by the fountain, she and Robbie do not speak again until they meet before a formal dinner. When Robbie is falsely accused of rape shortly after, Cecilia loses him to prison and war, and chooses not to contact any members of her family again.
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413:– Lola's younger twin brothers and Briony, Cecilia, and Leon's cousins. They come, along with their sister, to stay with the Tallises after their parents' divorce. Briony wants the twins to take a role in her play, but disputes mean the play is cancelled, upsetting them both. Pierrot appears later in the novel as an old man while his brother has died.
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425:– A friend of Leon. He rapes Lola outside the Tallis household after dark; Briony, however, accuses Robbie of Lola's rape, and many years later Lola and Paul marry. Paul Marshall also owns a chocolate factory that manufactures 'Amo' bars – chocolate energy bars supplied to army troops, which earn him a considerable fortune.
401:– The mother of Robbie Turner, she was given permission from Jack Tallis to live on the grounds. She has become the family's maid and does laundry for the Tallises. When her son is falsely accused of raping Lola, only she and Cecilia believe he is innocent, and Grace chooses to leave the Tallis family.
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Despite Robbie's instructions to the contrary, Briony opens the letter and reads it. She is shocked by its vulgar language, and becomes convinced that Robbie intends to harm
Cecilia. An injured Lola goes to Briony for comfort, claiming that her younger brothers attacked her, although it is implied to
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Briony travels to attend the wedding of Paul
Marshall and her cousin Lola, with the knowledge that Lola is marrying her rapist. Briony considers speaking up during the wedding, but does not. Afterwards, she visits Cecilia, who is cold but invites Briony in nonetheless. While Briony is apologizing to
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Briony justifies her invented happy ending by saying she does not see what purpose it would serve to give readers a "pitiless" story. She writes, "I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair, to let my lovers live and to unite
337:, the play that 13-year-old Briony had written and unsuccessfully attempted to stage with her cousins in the summer of 1935. Leon and Pierrot are in attendance, Jackson is fifteen years deceased, and Lola is alive but does not attend. Finally, Briony reveals to the reader that Robbie Turner died of
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Cecilia, and writes several drafts of a love letter to her. He gives the letter to Briony to deliver to Cecilia; however, he inadvertently gives her a version he had meant to discard, which contains lewd references ("In my
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Robbie does not return, and the family and police officers stay awake waiting for him. As dawn breaks, Robbie appears in the driveway with
Jackson and Pierrot, having found and rescued them. He is arrested on the spot and taken away, with only Cecilia and his mother believing his protestations of
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At the dinner, which is generally tense, it is discovered the twins have run away. The party breaks into teams to search for them. When
Cecilia goes with Leon, Robbie and Briony each set off on their own. In the darkness, while everyone is searching for the twins, Briony discovers her cousin Lola
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Cecilia and Robbie both refuse to forgive Briony, who nonetheless tells them she will try to put things right. She promises to begin the legal procedures needed to exonerate Robbie, even though Paul
Marshall will never be held responsible for his crime because of his marriage to Lola. As Briony
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has started, Robbie has spent several years in prison. He and
Cecilia have passed several years exchanging letters, maintaining their love for each other. Robbie is released from prison on the condition he enlist in the army. Meanwhile, Cecilia has completed training as a nurse, and cut off all
310:, but providing kindly and constructive feedback. The reader comes to realise that the work is in fact the first draft of the first section of this novel, and by reading that section again may ascertain that at some point in the future, Briony takes on board some of the feedback she received.
431:– Nettle is one of Robbie's two companions during the Dunkirk evacuation. In the fourth and final section of the novel, an elderly Briony alludes to an "old Mr. Nettle" from whom she received a "dozen long letters" but whether this is the same person is not made exactly clear.
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contact with her family for the parts they played in locking Robbie up. Shortly before Robbie is deployed to France, they meet once for half an hour, during
Cecilia's lunch break. Their reunion starts awkwardly, but they share a kiss before leaving each other.
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England and France, and present-day England, it covers an upper-class girl's half-innocent mistake that ruins lives, her adulthood in the shadow of that mistake, and a reflection on the nature of writing.
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Cecilia, Robbie unexpectedly appears from the bedroom. He has been living with Cecilia while he is on leave from the army. Robbie expresses his fury at Briony, but with Cecilia's soothing remains civil.
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leaves Cecilia's, she is optimistic about her role in Robbie's exoneration, thinking that it will be "a new draft, an atonement" and that she is ready to begin.
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1523:"Ian McEwan's Atonement: An oral history"
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1703:Reynolds, Nigel (6 December 2006).
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1766:Atonement: York Notes Advanced
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1821:Journal of Modern Literature
1784:Contemporary British Fiction
1778:Bentley, Nick. "Ian McEwan,
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794:All-Time 100 Greatest Novels
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1446:"The best novels ever"
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2155:In Between the Sheets
1932:Ian McEwan discusses
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1838:29.1 (2005): 130–145.
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759:Whitbread Novel Award
646:Independent On Sunday
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2320:"McEwan's Atonement"
1227:"The Trick of Truth"
1078:on 17 September 2011
1012:on 16 February 2010.
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2369:Jonathan Cape books
2354:Fiction set in 1935
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1823:27.3 (2004): 68–82.
1812:48.1 (2006): 31–43.
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1288:on 12 December 2011
1102:The Daily Telegraph
955:Best Original Score
939:Working Title Films
935:Christopher Hampton
882:No Time for Romance
814:The Daily Telegraph
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1805:3.1 (2007): 51–70.
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1599:"Uncovered talent"
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1998:The Cement Garden
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1856:and Ian McEwan's
1803:Cultural Politics
1792:978-0-7486-2420-1
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1202:"Atonement"
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322:Postscript
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207:Synopsis
130:47231087
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