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Harriet Walter
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Length
13 hours 38 minutes
Language
English
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“Beginning in 1935, Atonement charts the ramifications of one night’s misdeed on three central figures - Briony, her sister Cecelia, and Robbie Turner, their housekeeper’s son. Their lives are forever changed and, as war breaks out, opportunities for redemption could very easily slip out of their grasp. Despite there being several existing audiobooks of McEwan’s modern classic, it absolutely makes sense why this new narration by powerhouse performer Harriet Walter was commissioned. Walter brings nuance, tenderness and absolute glee to the minutiae of the characters’ lush internal worlds. She’s having as much fun reading McEwan’s story as we have listening to it, and narrates each character’s point of view with unique pacing and personality. Having seen what Walter can do with a whole cast of characters, I now look forward to seeing her formidable talent focused into her performance as Emily Tallis in the 2007 film.”
— Tamuz • Readings
Brought to you by Penguin.
This new audio edition of Ian McEwan’s beloved modern classic is narrated by Olivier Award winner and Emmy nominee Harriet Walter, who starred as Emily Tallis in the Academy Award-winning film adaptation of Atonement. Her recent credits range from The Crown to Succession and Ted Lasso.
On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia plunge naked into the fountain in the garden of their country house.
Watching her too is Robbie Turner 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. Briony will have witnessed mysteries, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.
'This new recording of Atonement is exquisitely read by the Succession actor Harriet Walter […] McEwan pulls off a bold narrative trick that causes the listener to question the foundations of his storytelling and the nature of fiction' The Guardian
'The best thing he has ever written' Observer
‘Atonement is a masterpiece’ The Times
**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**
© 2001 Ian McEwan (P)2024 Penguin Audio
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; and Nutshell, which was a Number One bestseller. Atonement and Enduring Love have both been turned into award-winning films, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach are in production and set for release this year, and filming is currently underway for a BBC TV adaptation of The Child in Time.