num_pages: 624
description: On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Also watching Cecilia is their housekeeper’s son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with Cecilia, has recently graduated from Cambridge. By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had dared to approach and Briony will have committed a dreadful crime.(back cover)
language: English
title: Atonement
titlecomplete: Atonement
characters: Lola Quincey, Robbie Turner, Jackson Quincey, Paul Marshall, Emily Tallis, Leon Tallis, Pierrot Quincey, Briony Tallis, Cecilia Tallis
genres: Historical, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, War, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary, Romance
ratings_count: 507703
places: London, England, France, England, United Kingdom
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Novel, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: WH Smith Literary Award, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Exclusive Books Boeke Prize, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Deutscher Buchpreis (German Book Prize)
category: Internationale Belletristik, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best Book in South Asia and Europe, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Premi Llibreter de narrativa, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Thorndike Pr