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I think. I had to.
And why, of course, it's my last novel.
Strangely enough,
it would be just as accurate
to call it my first novel.
I wrote several drafts as far back as my time
at St Thomas' Hospital during the War.
I just couldn't ever find the way to do it.
MAN:
Because the novel is autobiographical,is that right?
Yes, entirely. I haven't changed any names,
including my own.
And was that the problem?
No.
I had, for a very long time,
decided to tell the absolute truth.
No rhymes, no embellishments.
And I think...
You've read the book,
you'll understand why.
I got first-hand accounts of all the events
I didn't personally witness,
the conditions in prison,
the evacuation to Dunkirk, everything.
But the effect of all this honesty
was rather pitiless.
You see, I couldn't any longer imagine
what purpose would be served by it.
By what? Sorry. Served by honesty?
By honesty.
Or reality.
Because, in fact,
I was too much of a coward
to go and see my sister in June, 1940.
I never made that journey to Balham.
ROBBIE:
Do you have any ideawhat it's like in jail?
BRIONY:
So the scene in whichI confess to them is imagined.
CECILIA:
He sleeps so deeply.BRIONY:
Invented.ROBBIE:
How old do you have to be to knowthe difference between right and wrong?
BRIONY:
And, in fact,could never have happened.
Because
Robbie Turner died of septicaemia
at Bray-Dunes
on June the first, 1940,
the last day of the evacuation.
Cheerio, pal.
And I was never able to put things right
with my sister, Cecilia,
because she was killed
on the 15th of October, 1940,
by the bomb that destroyed the gas
and water mains above Balham tube station.
So...
My sister and Robbie were never able
to have the time together
they both so longed for, and deserved.
And which, ever since, I've...
Ever since I've always felt I prevented.
But what sense of hope,
or satisfaction, could a reader derive
from an ending like that?
So, in the book, I wanted to give Robbie
and Cecilia what they lost out on in life.
I'd like to think
this isn't weakness or evasion,
but a final act of kindness.
I gave them their happiness.
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