What if Briony Tallis had to face Robbie and Cecilia after revealing that the happy ending she gave them never happened? Some novels ask what happened.Atonement asks something far more unsettling:What happens after the truth arrives too late?Ian McEwan's Atonement has become one of the defining novels of the twenty-first century because it refuses simple … [Read more...] about Atonement Ending Explained: Briony Faces the Truth