Atonement Summary
Ian McEwan

Atonement Overview

Ian McEwan’s Atonement sets the stage for a lifelong family drama for which Briony Tallis will always desire atonement. In the summer of 1935 amongst visiting family, an unfortunate turn of events finds Briony misconstruing innocent actions that leaves her sister Cecilia’s boyfriend Robbie accused of her cousin Lola’s rape. Briony is forever haunted by the knowledge that she sent an innocent man to prison while her cousin marries the supposedly guilty man.