The Photograph by Penelope Lively

Author:Penelope Lively
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Penguin USA, Inc.
Published: 2011-10-28T01:41:40+00:00

There is a further task which is ancillary to the fact-finding process and the pursuit of witnesses. You could call it the examination of motive, Glyn supposes. Several motives. Why did he marry Kath? Why (to be fair) did Kath marry him? Above all, why did Kath cheat on him with Nick? And with others, if others there were.

Why? Why? Why? Motive is all. Motive is clarification. Motive explains. Motive soothes, perhaps.

He is good at nailing motives. The landscape heaves with hidden motives, coded motives. It looks the way it does because people chopped trees down to build ships, because they overran the place with sheep when wool was in high demand. It is scarred with the effects of cupidity: shafts sunk because this man wanted to get rich, villages swept away because another man needed to improve his view. Motive is Glyn’s speciality.

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