2003 Nominated
Atonement
ABOUT
THE BOOK
On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, 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 Cecelia, 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.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Country
United Kingdom
Original Language
English
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Nominating Library
Helsingin Kaupunginkirjasto / Helsinki City Library - Finland,
Stadtbücherei Frankfurt am Main - Germany,
City of Cape Town Library and information Services - South Africa,
Belfast Education and Library Board - Northern Ireland,
Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi - New Zealand,
de Bib Leuven Tweebronnen - Belgium,
Edinburgh City Libraries & Information Services - Scotland,
Municipal Library of Prague - Czech Republic,
Dunedin Public Libraries - New Zealand,
Glasgow Life Library - Scotland,
Cleveland Public Library - USA,
Ethekwini Municipal Library - South Africa