In Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001), aspiring writer 13-year-old Briony Tallis glimpses a world of opaque “adult emotion”.

The Eras Book Club is returning this year to the Joe A. Guerra Library, aiming to unite Swifties through the power of literature. Since August 2024, the Eras Book Club has paired contemporary ...

Briony May Williams is best known for being a contestant on The Great British Bake Off. The chef and television presenter – previously a languages teacher at QEH – lives in north Bristol with her ...

In 1935, 13-year-old Briony catches her sister with a lover and tells a lie that will haunt her for ever. This metafictional masterpiece has become a classic – as has the green dress from the ...

The 2003 novel received rave reviews, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and ranked #70 in The Guardian' s Best Books of the 21st Century. Dame Judi Dench and Cate Blanchette in Notes on a ...

who portray older versions of Briony, as well as Benedict Cumberbatch, Juno Temple, and Alfie Allen amongst others. Following Atonement, Wright and Knightley would team up again on 2012 period ...

But Briony’s inexperience with adult movies and her unstable imagination bring the kind of crime that changed the lives of all characters. A crime, whose consequences Atonement follows through the ...