Atonement (film) bombing by the Luftwaffe whilst the station was being used as an air-raid shelter occurred on 15 October 1940; the bombing and the subsequent flooding of the station actually occurred the previous evening (14 October 1940). During the scene in 1935 where Robbie writes and discards letters for Cecilia, he keeps playing a record of the love duet from Act 1 of "La bohème" by Puccini, with Victoria de los Ángeles and Jussi Björling, which was only recorded in 1956. Atonement (film) Atonement is a 2007 romantic war drama film directed by Joe Wright and based on Ian McEwan's 2001
Kimberley Chambers (author) Kimberley Chambers (author) Kimberley Chambers is a British novelist (born on 13 June 1967) who lives in Essex. She has published thirteen crime novels, including the Butler and Mitchells series, which are mainly set in Essex or East London. She writes gritty, crime family sagas, laced with her trademark humour, most often from the perspective of the villain. Three of her novels – "Payback", "Tainted Love" and "Life of Crime" - have been "Sunday Times" Number One bestsellers. Chambers was born and brought up in Dagenham. Her mother, Valerie, worked as a typist, and her father, Tom, was a steel