{"product_id":"atonement-by-ian-mcewan-9781841593609","title":"Atonement","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWatching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBriony will have witnessed mysteries, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ian McEwan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56680187887989,"sku":"9781841593609","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0812\/4075\/2426\/files\/9781841593609.jpg?v=1769796340","url":"https:\/\/sherlockandpages.com\/products\/atonement-by-ian-mcewan-9781841593609","provider":"Sherlock \u0026 Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}