Presence of Mind (2012)
“My brain refused to stop its tortuous weaving round and round the events of the last few days and in particular kept reminding me of my swift instinctive prayer that evening that it would be as herself that Briony regained consciousness. Worst of all, I wasn’t entirely sure that the prayer had been granted. The more I repeated to myself those first few words she had spoken, the more frightened I became. There had been something alien there, an intonation, a choice of words which surely were not... Briony’s. That Lance had noticed it too I had no doubt.
For the first time I was forced to face the fact that since to our knowledge she had never actually lost consciousness before, those other times when she had ‘gone away’ someone else must have been standing in for her. And right on cue my brain supplied the remark of Max’s which had been tantalising my memory at breakfast. ‘Most disturbances of that kind originate in the mind, perhaps by means of dual or even multiple personality.’ The peal of thunder and subsequent fusing of the lights had put an end to the conversation, but what had he meant?MoreLess
For the first time I was forced to face the fact that since to our knowledge she had never actually lost consciousness before, those other times when she had ‘gone away’ someone else must have been standing in for her. And right on cue my brain supplied the remark of Max’s which had been tantalising my memory at breakfast. ‘Most disturbances of that kind originate in the mind, perhaps by means of dual or even multiple personality.’ The peal of thunder and subsequent fusing of the lights had put an end to the conversation, but what had he meant?MoreLess
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