Penance, Paperback Book, By: Ian McEwan

On a summer's day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony is surprised by the sight of her older sister Cecilia and Ruby, the maid's son. Brioni's fertile imagination, however, and her inability to comprehend adults' motives will result in an unforgivable crime, one that will transform the course of all of their lives..."An extraordinary, powerful, exhausting and sublime novel...No English-language novelist today surpasses Ian McEwan." He is the author of eleven novels, the most prominent of which is the Booker Prize-winning novel "Amsterdam".