“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.” I remember finishing this book in a café, staring at the last page with shaking hands. Not because I didn’t expect tragedy, But because I hoped—until the very last second—that fiction might be kinder than real life. It wasn’t. Briony’s mistake wasn’t unforgivable. But its consequences were. She tried to make it right, over decades. But what she broke wasn’t just two lives—it was truth. And truth doesn’t grow back. Atonement is about guilt so heavy it turns into narrative. It’s about telling a story again and again, hoping the ending changes—when it never does. What hit me the hardest? Sometimes the story you write to make peace… is just another lie. #Entertainment #Books