McEwan, Ian

Imaginative thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis, misinterpreting a scene between her older sister Cecilia and Robbie Turner, the housekeeper's son, later accuses Robbie of a crime she has no proof he committed and spends years trying to atone for her actions.

"The story of one man's life across generations and historical upheavals: a . . . novel about love, loss, ambition, and resolution"--Provided by publisher.

"In an alternative 1980s London, Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first synthetic humans and--with Miranda's help--he designs Adam's personality. The near-perfect human the emerges is beautiful, strong, and clever. It isn't long before a love triangle forms, and these three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma"--Provided by publisher.

In an alternative 1980s historical London, Charlie is a drifter, avoiding full-time employment, with a crush on the smart student Miranda, who herself lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie unexpectedly comes into money, he buys one of the world's first synthetic humans and with Miranda's help designs Adam, the android, and his perfect personality. A love-triangle forms, and Charlie, Miranda, and Adam must confront moral dilemmas.

In 1935 England, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses an event involving her sister Cecilia and her childhood friend Robbie Turner, and she becomes the victim of her own imagination, which leads her on a lifelong search for truth and absolution.

"Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home--a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse--butJohn's not here. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb..."--Provided by publisher.

Nobel Prize-winning scientist Michael Beard coasts through his professional life as his fifth marriage disintegrates, but gets an unexpected chance at redemption when he is called on to save humanity from environmental disaster.

Two friends meet at the funeral of their former lover, who had many lovers and make a pact that affects the rest of their lives in ways they never imagined.

Fiona Maye, a London judge approaching the age of sixty, is forced to confront her crumbling marriage while she faces a difficult case in which a seventeen-year-old boy dying of leukemia is denied blood transfusions by his parents due to the family's religious beliefs.