Atonement

 
Author : Ian McEwan

Title : Atonement

Publ Info : London : Vintage, 2002

Call No. : 823.914 M158A 2002


 
Summary : 
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 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 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 myteries and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.