Atonement, our new book choice

I don’t know much about Atonement, either the book or the movie. Having not read a single page yet, my main objection to the book so far is that my copy has a nasty discount sticker plastered all over James McAvoy’s face. How rude!

This is the book chosen for our second Book Night, so I look forward to getting stuck in, once the mulled wine and mince pie endurance test has been won.

The Observer calls this book impressive, engrossing, deep and surprising, so I must be in for a treat, albeit a dark one, as it’s also described as: “a private drama of loss of innocence or betrayal… played out against a larger history of bad faith”.

After the simian satire we’ve just read, it sounds like we’ve hit on something completely different here.  I can’t wait to see which is more to the taste of our group as a whole… Be it a clanger or a winner, I look forward to sharing our views at Book Night II… date TBC.

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