Atonement (novel) Atonement (novel) Atonement is a 2001 British metafiction novel written by Ian McEwan concerning the understanding of and responding to the need for personal atonement. Set in three time periods, 1935 England, Second World War 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. Widely regarded as one of McEwan's best works, it was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize for fiction. In 2010, "TIME" magazine named "Atonement" in its list of the 100 greatest English-language novels
Love's Enduring Promise Love's Enduring Promise Love's Enduring Promise is a 2004 made-for-television Christian drama film based on a series of books by Janette Oke. The film is the second in the "Love Comes Softly" series of television movies on Hallmark Channel that includes "Love Comes Softly" (2003), "Love's Long Journey" (2005), "Love's Abiding Joy" (2006), "Love's Unending Legacy" (2007), "Love's Unfolding Dream", "Love Takes Wing" (2009), and "Love Finds a Home" produced for Hallmark by Larry Levinson Productions(2009), as well as the 2011 prequels "Love Begins" and "Love's Everlasting Courage". Missie Davis (January Jones) is a young woman who, although working as