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Durning Library Reading Group: Ian McEwan's ATONEMENT

This month's Reading Group book is Ian McEwan's ATONEMENT which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2001. There are copies available at the Durning if you like to read it and join the Group when it meets to discuss it on the first Wednesday of each month, next being Wednesday evening, 7pm on 2nd October.

From the inside jacket cover: "On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge.

"By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined at its start, and will have become victims of the younger girl's imagination. Briony will have witnessed mysteries, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.

"Atonement is Ian McEwan's finest achievement. Brilliant and utterly enthralling in its depiction of childhood, love and war, England and class, at is centre is a profound - and profoundly moving - exploration of shame and forgiveness, of atonement and the difficulty of absolution."

"Ian McEwan has written two collections of stories, First Love, Last Rites and In Between the Sheets, and eight novels, The Cement Garden, The Comfort of Strangers, The Child in Time, The Innocent, Black Dogs, The Day Dreamer, Enduring Love, and Amsterdam. He has also written several film scripts, including The Imitation Game, The Ploughman's Lunch, Sour Sweet, The Good Son and The Innocent. He won the Booker Prize for Amsterdam in 1998."

Please ask Stephen Fleming or the librarian on duty for a copy and we look forward to meeting up with you on Wednesday, 2nd October to discuss this book with food and wine that is supposed to be somehow connected to the book. (By way of example, last month's book was Alison Weir's Eleanor of Aquitaine and Jean managed to find a lovely wine called "Plantagenet"!)

Best regards
Cathy

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