On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis watches her sister Cecilia take off her clothes and dive into the fountain of their country house garden. Present is also Robbie Turner, her childhood friend, who, like Cecilia, has recently returned from Cambridge. By the end of this day, the lives of all three will have changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they hadn't even imagined at the start and will become victims of the younger girl's imagination. Briony will have witnessed secrets and committed a crime for which she will try to atone for the rest of her life. "From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing that she had always known, and everyone knew: that a person is, among other things, a material thing, easily torn, but difficult to mend."

Pages: 424, Dimensions: 13.5x13.5cm