Atonement Sam Bett Hidden down a quiet alley

Hidden down a quiet alley in Tokyo

The daughter of an Indian mother and a British father

Having already written seminal works of detective fiction

and bad behavior—and the highly anticipated new novel by acclaimed and award-winning author Kiley Reid

Atonement Sam Bett Hidden down a quiet alleyIn the summer of 1935, thirteen year old Briony Tallis misinterprets a moment between her sister Cecilia and Robbie Turner, the servant's son. Fueled by imagination and wounded pride, Brionys accusation sets off a chain of events that will shatter lives and haunt her for decades. As World war II engulfs Europe, the consequences of that single, devastating lie ripple outwardfrom the English countryside to the battlefields, and into the late twentieth