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GLEN:

This is a great old house.

TAMARA:

Would you like to buy it?

GLEN:

I’m not really the property-owning

kind. Prefer my life to fit into handluggage.

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ANDY:

That’s why you’re back, to flog it?

TAMARA:

Yes.

ANDY:

Make a nice second home for some

banker wankers.

TAMARA:

Andy if you want it, why don’t you

make me an offer?

ANDY:

Because sadly I’m still prey to theeconomic forces that threw the

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peasant classes off the land.

TAMARA:

Unlucky.

Tamara opens a cupboard. It’s full of empty wine bottles. *

ANDY:

Tam.

Their eyes meet.

ANDY (CONT'D)

What the f*** have you done toyourself?

Tamara’s face falls.

36 EXT. DAY. THE FIELDS (LARKHAM). 36

Glen and Andy are walking back. Andy is brooding.

ANDY *

She’s completely different. *

GLEN *

How was she before? What’s the *

story?... *

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ANDY:

There isn’t one.

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Come on.

GLEN *

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ANDY:

Was nothing. Decade ago. Just ateenage thing.

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37 1996. INT. DAY. WINNARDS FARM - A SHED. 37 *

Tamara pulling down her pants; Andy unbuttoning his jeans.

She jumps up on the worktable, pushing a stack of turnips outof the way. They kiss passionately.

ANDY:

You should find someone you’re in

love with.

TAMARA:

You stupid prick.

Andy looks at her. She is sincere.

ANDY:

You saying you love me, frosty tits?

TAMARA:

You first.

ANDY:

You say it; You’re the girl.

TAMARA:

F*** off.

She kisses him. As they start to make love:

TAMARA (CONT'D)

I love you. F*** off. I love you. *

37A EXT. DAY. A FIELD. 37A *

Glen looks over at Andy, interrupting his thoughts.

GLEN:

Romeo and Juliet, huh?

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Andy carries on down the hill, shaking his head. *

38 INT. DAY. WINNARDS FARM - THE KITCHEN. 38 *

Tamara is watching Andy walk away with Glen. Her eyes followhim curiously - then she firmly turns her back.

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Tamara rips a bin liner off the roll and shakes it out.

She takes a deep breath. She opens the cupboard and begins to

bin the distressing mountain of empty wine bottles. *

EXT. NIGHT. STONEFIELD - THE GROUNDS.

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Beth is standing at the hedge looking down at the valley with

Nicholas at her side.

BETH:

Thinking of the first time we saw

this place...

NICHOLAS:

You’ve made it a wonderful home

Beth.

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BETH:

Not wonderful enough.

She starts to walk away. Nicholas holds her back.

NICHOLAS:

If you can’t put this behind you,

then we’re stuck.

BETH:

Well I’d better sort myself out then. *

NICHOLAS:

What has to happen? I am sorry Beth

brings her arm up to push him away. Nicholas catches it;

draws her to him. He kisses her insistently. Beth’s

resistance diminishes. Soon it has gone. We begin to see thedepth of Beth’s physical love for him.

At that moment, Glen walks round the corner. He tries to

backtrack, mortified by his intrusion on their passion. Toolate. They part. Nicholas turns away in frustration.

GLEN:

Just taking the air.

Flustered, he knocks into a tub of lobelias. Beth and

Nicholas remain. The moment between them is gone. Round thecorner, Glen is cringing.

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41 EXT. DAY. EWEDOWN - BUS SHELTER. 41

Jody and Casey are reading a celebrity magazine.

JODY:

Would you do him?

CASEY:

No.

JODY:

What about him?

CASEY:

He’s gay, you dobbin.

JODY:

So?

They turn to a big spread on a band called Swipe.

CASEY:

Swipe.

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JODY:

Ben Sergeant...

I’d walk through fire to do him.

CASEY:

The drummer?

JODY:

He’s not just the drummer. He writes

the lyrics; it’s his band. He’s the

f***ing genius, not Steve Culley orany of these wankers. It’s Ben.

CASEY:

OK. I’d do Ben.

JODY:

I wanna be her, in that dress with

him licking my teapot lids.

CASEY:

Yeah... me too.

42 EXT. LATE AFTERNOON. STONEFIELD - THE GROUNDS. 42

Casey is still carrying this image as she serves a tray ofnibbles on the patio. She stands among the writers, watchinga fly get caught in one of the vol-au-vents.

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DIGGORY *

People talk about the muscularity inprose. I want a similar muscularityin my verse. I don't want a poetrythat's flabby or obese - that's why Iadhere to the tightest rhyme schemes:

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Diggory picks the vol-au-vent up and without looking, puts itin his mouth. Casey moves over to Nicholas and Glen.

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DIGGORY *

ABB ACC DEE D. They give you thearmature, the beating heart, thenerve ends...

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NICHOLAS:

So has the muse shone on you, Greg?

GLEN:

I’ve been pretty distracted. Most

recently by those delicious cookiethings that Beth brought round thisafternoon.

NICHOLAS:

Oh yes. Of course we call thembiscuits here.

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GLEN:

And by the place itself, the people.

NICHOLAS:

Sometimes wish I could get

distracted. Ten page a day man,

rain or shine.

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GLEN:

Wow, that’s scary. Ten pages; how *

do you do that?

NICHOLAS:

Well, Greg

GLEN:

Glen

NICHOLAS:

I wouldn’t presume to give an

academic tips.

GLEN:

Matter of fact I read one of your

books. Another distraction but I

thought it was decent stuff.

NICHOLAS:

Well.

He’s offended.

NICHOLAS (CONT'D)

How do I do it? I just get on with

it, Greg.

Nicholas walks away leaving Glen smarting. The female writers

surround Nicholas. He tops them up, full of charm. Under his

breath, Glen impersonates:

GLEN:

‘We call them biscuits, here.’

Nicholas raises his glass for a toast.

NICHOLAS:

To the muse, however you find her.

He is looking at Beth. She is gratified. Then his eye shifts,

his glass still in the air.

NICHOLAS (CONT'D)

Who’s that?

Tamara Drewe is climbing the stile at the bottom of the

garden in a low cut T-shirt, tiny pair of denim shorts and

bare feet. The evening light bathes her in a golden sheen.

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GLEN:

That’s Tamara Drewe.

NICHOLAS:

No it isn’t.

GLEN:

I met her with Andy.

NICHOLAS:

Good God. What’s happened to her?

POPPY:

She’s had a nose job, Dad.

NICHOLAS:

She’s completely different.

GLEN:

That’s what Andy said.

BETH:

Poor Tamara. Such a sad girl. She

used to come and help you wash the

car, didn’t she Nicholas? I think

she liked a bit of family after her

dad left.

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