Description
The story is about three friends, Cecilia, Robbie, and Briony, and how their lives change after Cecilia and Robbie have sex for the first time. Cecilia and Robbie cross a boundary they hadn't even imagined, and Briony witnesses mysteries. Briony spends the rest of her life trying to atone for committing the crime.
On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country hosue. 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 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 will have witnessed mysteries, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.
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