Ian McEwan reading his novel Atonement
Print version
Author Ian McEwan gave a reading from his acclaimed novel Atonement at the College on Wednesday 5 December 2007 to a capacity filled audience in the Great Hall, Strand Campus. The book, recently made into a film directed by Joe Wright starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy, features nursing scenes at St Thomas' Hospital.
The novel is credited by McEwan, in part, to have been drawn from inspiration found in the diaries of Lucilla Andrews, a nurse who worked in St Thomas' Hospital in the 1950s.
Atonement received the WH Smith Literary Award (2002), National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (2003), Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction (2003), and the Santiago Prize for the European Novel (2004).
The event was organised by the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery as part of Culture & Care.
The novel is credited by McEwan, in part, to have been drawn from inspiration found in the diaries of Lucilla Andrews, a nurse who worked in St Thomas' Hospital in the 1950s.
Atonement received the WH Smith Literary Award (2002), National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (2003), Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction (2003), and the Santiago Prize for the European Novel (2004).
The event was organised by the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery as part of Culture & Care.