Paperback, 372 pages
English language
Published July 16, 2007 by Anchor Books.
Atonement
by Ian McEwan
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, her childhood friend. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed forever and Briony will have committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone. --back cover
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, her childhood friend. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed forever and Briony will have committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone. --back cover
