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An imaginative ten-year-old boy, who is best understood by his family, recounts some of the adventures he has while daydreaming.

Imaginative thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis, misinterpreting a scene between her older sister Cecilia and Robbie Turner, the housekeeper's son, later accuses Robbie of a crime she has no proof he committed and spends years trying to atone for her actions.

Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, is being groomed for the intelligence services after a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge.

Henry Perowne, a London neurosurgeon, goes through his normal Saturday activities, including a weekly squash game, but his unease grows as he makes his way through the throngs of anti-war protesters clogging London's streets, until a minor car accident with the petulant Baxter begins a series of events that erupts into violence.

Two friends meet at the funeral of their former lover, who had many lovers and make a pact that affects the rest of their lives in ways they never imagined.

Fiona Maye, a London judge approaching the age of sixty, is forced to confront her crumbling marriage while she faces a difficult case in which a seventeen-year-old boy dying of leukemia is denied blood transfusions by his parents due to the family's religious beliefs.

"Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home--a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse--butJohn's not here.

Imaginative thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis, misinterpreting a scene between her older sister Cecilia and Robbie Turner, the housekeeper's son, later accuses Robbie of a crime she has no proof he committed and spends years trying to atone for her actions.

"In an alternative 1980s London, Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret.

"The story of one man's life across generations and historical upheavals: a .