Atonement
By: Ian McEwan
Edition: Movie Tie-In Edition (2)
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780099520665
Copyright date: 2001
Description: On the hottest day of the summer Of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off herklothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of her country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. 

By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined at its start, and will have become victims of the younger girl's imagination. Briony will have witnessed mysteries and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.
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