"You want to make him understand why you hadn't told him. It wasn't for you. It was for them... Your silence had been to protect your son... There had been no need for anyone else to suffer."
"Catherine, too, is shown struggling. Her woeful present is motivated by the Brigstockes' anguished past, and setting each timeline side-by-side can make for a rough two hours of television... overwhelming grief interrupted only by graphic sex scenes and Robert's increasingly indignant reaction to them."
"It's an exquisite work of fiction," she says to Stephen's answering machine about Nancy's novel, "The Perfect Stranger." This reflects Catherine’s complex relationship with the narrative of suffering that permeates their lives.
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