![]() There are other characters, but I mention these four, because we get different perspectives of Part One in the book from each of them. The girls’ mother, Mrs Tallis, who is usually in her room with a headache.Robbie, the son of the cleaning lady and pet project of the girls father.Her sister Cecilia, who is just home from college and feeling rather restless.There is Briony, a 13 year old girl who writes stories and has written her very first play.In part one of the book, we are introduced to the main characters. This really is a great book, but I am going to say something I almost never say: I liked the movie better. I loved that the reader was kept guessing as to what really happened and who the criminal was, even though there were subtle clues. I loved that the romance was passionate, but not over the top. I loved that the story was told from multiple points of view. ![]() ![]() But Briony’s 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. ![]() On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses the flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant. Ian McEwan’s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose. ![]()
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