Imprint: Everyman
Published: 30/05/2014
ISBN: 9781841593609
Length: 424 Pages
Dimensions: 210mm x 134mm x 28mm
Weight: 526g
RRP: £10.99
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 house. 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.
"From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended.”
Imprint: Everyman
Published: 30/05/2014
ISBN: 9781841593609
Length: 424 Pages
Dimensions: 210mm x 134mm x 28mm
Weight: 526g
RRP: £10.99
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