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On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, their childhood friend. By the end of the day Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not ever imagined at its start, and Briony will have witnessed mysteries and committed a crime that resonatesthrough the war and through the characters' entire lives.
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Atonement, Ian McEwan
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- Released
- 2007
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- Title
- Atonement
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Ian McEwan
- Publisher
- Vintage Canada
- Released
- 2007
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN10
- 0307396789
- ISBN13
- 9780307396785
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Love, Family, Contemporary Fiction, Classics, Politics, France, Wars, World War II, British Literature, England, Literary Fiction, Great Britain, English Literature, Adapted for Film, London, Fate, Lies, Guilt, Doctors, Thefts and Robberies, Cruelty, Terror, Forgiveness, Blues, Neurosurgery
- First published
- 2001
- Original title
- Atonement
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, their childhood friend. By the end of the day Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not ever imagined at its start, and Briony will have witnessed mysteries and committed a crime that resonatesthrough the war and through the characters' entire lives.