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Book Review of Atonement

Atonement
Atonement
Author: Ian McEwan
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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This comes from the inside cover. On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, 13 yr old Briony Tallis see her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge int the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper's son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along withe Briony's sister, has recently graduated from Cambridge. By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed forever.