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
Kimberley Chambers (author) Chambers still writes all her books by hand. Her ninth novel, "Payback", was awarded a Specsavers Silver Bestseller Award in 2018 for sales in excess of 250,000 copies. Kimberley Chambers (author) Kimberley Chambers is a British novelist (born on 13 June 1967) who lives in Essex. She has published thirteen crime novels, including the Butler and Mitchells series, which are mainly set in Essex or East London. She writes gritty, crime family sagas, laced with her trademark humour, most often from the perspective of the villain. Three of her novels – "Payback", "Tainted Love" and "Life of Crime" - have