NoW NHS Libraries logo

NOW Library Service



North West
Knowledge and Library Services




Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Atonement

By: Publication details: London : Vintage 2001ISBN:
  • 9780099507383
Summary: On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia plunge naked into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her too is Robbie Turner 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. Briony will have witnessed mysteries, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Class number Status Notes Date due Barcode
Book, Standard Loan (4 weeks) Mersey and West Lancashire NHS Library - St Helens and Knowsley Leisure Reading Leisure MCE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available T023380
Book, Standard Loan (4 weeks) Mid Cheshire NHS Library Leisure Reading FICTION (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 36150012
Book, Standard Loan (4 weeks) Stockport NHS Library Leisure Reading Leisure FIC M (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available R25649
Book, Standard Loan (4 weeks) Wirral NHS Library Leisure Reading Leisure Read & Relax - M (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available B12346

On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia plunge naked into the fountain in the garden of their country house.

Watching her too is Robbie Turner 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. Briony will have witnessed mysteries, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.