McEwan, Ian

Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, is being groomed for the intelligence services after a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge. She is sent on a secret mission and comes in contact with a promising young writer, Tom Haley, and while at first she loves his books, she then comes to love the man, and while trying to maintain her undercover life she breaks the first rule of espionage, trust no one.

Imaginative thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis, misinterpreting a scene between her older sister Cecilia and Robbie Turner, the housekeeper's son, later accuses Robbie of a crime she has no proof he committed and spends years trying to atone for her actions.

An imaginative ten year old boy who is misunderstood by most grown-ups has a number of remarkable adventures while daydreaming.