Publisher's Synopsis
13-year-old Briony Tallis in the summer of 1935 welcomes home her idolised elder brother Leon, but the charlady's son Robbie seems to be forcing Briony's sister Cecilia to strip in the fountain, Leon has brought home a dim chocolate magnate keen for a war to sell his new Army Amo bar; and Briony's migraine-stricken mother has taken to bed.
