Atonement
Edition: Future Classics Limited Edition with Reading Guide
Series: Vintage Future Classics
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780099497042
Copyright date: 2001
Subjects: British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author); Fiction, family life; Fiction, psychological; Sisters, fiction; England, fiction
Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 

On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecelia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their 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 forever. 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.
--back cover
Notes: UK