On a summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a momentβs flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant. But Brionyβs incomplete grasp of adult motives and her precocious imagination bring about a crime that will change all their lives, a crime whose repercussions Atonement follows through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century.
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