# Atonement

**Author(s):** Ian McEwan
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (1 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/atonement/verdict.json
**Genres:** historical-romance, psychological-thriller, literary-fiction, domestic-thriller, wwii-fiction
**Pages:** 351
**Publisher:** Nan A. Talese | Doubleday
**Published:** Tue Jan 01 2019 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780385503952
**ISBN-10:** 0385503954
**ASIN:** 843390258X
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/atonement

## Description

Atonement is a 2001 British metafiction novel written by Ian McEwan. 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 since 1923.

## SageChimp reader verdict

Atonement has only 1 unpaid published review on SageChimp (need 5). That is not enough to say whether the book is genuinely well-liked or amplified by paid/ARC/BookTok hype. Do not treat Amazon, Goodreads, or social scores as SageChimp evidence.

- **Status:** Not enough unpaid reviews (`insufficient_data`)
- **Paid-hype signal:** Cannot judge paid hype from this sample (`insufficient_data`)
- **Unpaid reviews:** 1 (avg 5.0/5)
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
- **Machine-readable:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/atonement/verdict.json

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**Themes:** War

## Community Reviews (showing 1 of 1)

### ★★★★★ (Untitled) — kristin