(USED- Well Read) 'A SUPERB ACHIEVEMENT'SUNDAY TIMES 'BRILLIANTLY EXPLORES THECURRENTS OF GUILT, SHAMEAND ANGER... UTTERLYSATISFYING, COMPLETE'SCOTSMAN On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen:year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip offher clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garderof her country house. Watching her is Robbie Turnerher childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently:come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day the lives of all three will havebeen changed for ever. Robbie and Cecilia will havecrossed a boundary they had not even imagined at itsstart, and will have become victims of the youngergirl's imagination. Briony will have witnessed mysteries and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone. 'SMOULDERS WITH SLOW-BURNING MENACE'THE TIMES
