saoirseosborne 's review for:

Atonement by Ian McEwan

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This was superb. I really liked the writing overall. Especially the bits of panic when Robbie is being strafed in France - I can see why they analyse it at A-level. McEwan somehow quickens the pace without it being entirely clear how he does so. And Robbie's dream-like recollections

just before he dies

are sublime. 

At the start, I enjoyed the micro-moments of perceptiveness about human nature. The book's bigger themes unfold more slowly. I loved the two moments in which we consider what was real and what wasn't,

when Briony recieves the letter from the publishers and her own chapter at the very end.

I still don't really know what ending was 'true', but of course I suppose that isn't the point.