Their elder daughter Cecilia is also present she has just graduated from Cambridge and is at home for the summer, restless and yearning for her life to really begin.
His wife Emily is a semi-invalid, nursing chronic migraine headaches. Jack Tallis is absent from the gathering he spends most of his time in London at the War Ministry and with his mistress. Thirteen-year-old Briony has written a play in honor of the visit of her adored older brother Leon other guests include her three young cousins-refugees from their parent’s marital breakup-Leon’s friend Paul Marshall, the manufacturer of a chocolate bar called “Amo” that soldiers will be able to carry into war, and Robbie Turner, the son of the family charlady whose brilliantly successful college career has been funded by Mr. The novel opens on a sweltering summer day in 1935 at the Tallis family’s mansion in the Surrey countryside.
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