Atonement Elizabeth Corley and five young lives are

and five young lives are atomised in an instant

a gateway to other worlds - and a treacherous weapon in the hands of the unwary

in which a young socialite discovers the haunting secrets of a beautiful old mansion in 1950s Mexico

I am grateful and invigorated Katie Gavin

deeply unsettling and full of breakneck twists and turns

Atonement Elizabeth Corley and five young lives areA story that begins with three young people in the garden of a country house on the hottest day of 1935, and ends with three profoundly changed lives. A depiction of love and war, class, childhood and England, that explores shame and forgiveness, atonement and the possibility of absolution.