“So, my sister and Robbie were never able to have the time together they both so longed for... and deserved. 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…”
— Christopher Hampton, Briony Tallis (Age 77), Vanessa Redgrave, imdb.com