Atonement

Atonement is a 2001 novel by Ian McEwan, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and adapted into a 2007 film. On a summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees something she misunderstands and accuses her sister's lover of a crime he did not commit. The novel follows the consequences of that lie through the Second World War and across the rest of Briony's life.