ATONEMENT

On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge i nto the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has re cently 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 ...[Read more]