Atonement By Ian McEvan

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]A little girl told a lie and two lovers paid for it with their entire lives.

[00:00:07]Atonement begins in a quiet English mansion where 13-year-old Briony [music] Tallis believes she understands the world.

[00:00:16]One summer evening, she witnesses moments between her sister Cecilia and [music] a young man named Robbie Turner.

[00:00:25]But childish imagination twists love into something dangerous. Then a crime [music] shakes the family and with one sentence she destroys the lives of two innocent people.

[00:00:38]Robbie is [music] taken away.

[00:00:41]Cecilia loses the man she loves and soon World War II drags them even further apart as the war turns Europe [music] into ruins.

[00:00:52]Briony grows older and realizes the horror of what she has done.

[00:00:58]Haunted by guilt, she spends her life trying to make amends, becoming a nurse, then a writer, searching [music] for a way to undo the irreversible.

[00:01:10]But the cruellest truth comes at the end.

[00:01:13]Robbie never returned from the war.

[00:01:16]Cecilia died in [music] a bombing.

[00:01:19]The reunion Briony wrote for them was only fiction, a final gift she could never give in real life because sometimes an apology is not enough to heal a ruined life. Robbie never came home.

[00:01:35]Cecilia never got to say goodbye and Briony spent a [music] lifetime writing Atonement for two people who would never read it.