London · 2001 · citedAtonement
Ian McEwan
A country house in the Surrey heat of 1935, where a girl's misreading of one scene wrecks three lives, then the war that follows it: a soldier's long walk to the beaches of Dunkirk, and the London wards where the two sisters nurse the wounded. The map anchors on southern England, from the Surrey estate to wartime Lambeth and Balham, and reaches across the Channel to the French coast of the retreat.
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