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.
year: 2002, 2003, 2001
call number/section: 1000
subjects: teenage girls, fiction, country life, ex-convicts, sisters, guilt, england, fiction, dunkirk, battle of, dunkerque, france, 1940, england, world war, 1939-1945, dunkerque (france), battle of, 1940 -
Editions
McEwan, Ian
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday (2002)
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.
Schools: 17
McEwan, Ian
Anchor Books (2003)
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.
Schools: 8
McEwan, Ian
Anchor Books (2001)
In 1935 England, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses an event involving her sister Cecilia and her childhood friend Robbie Turner, and she becomes the victim of her own imagination, which leads her on a lifelong search for truth and absolution.
Schools: 4