Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Overview... the son of an English servant working for the aristocratic Tallis family, with whom Robbie grew up, at the beginning of the 20th century. He was practically treated as one of the children, and fostered close relationships with daughters Cecilia and Briony Tallis. Cecilia is Robbie’s age, and now that they are young adults, their relationship has become a bit more romantically complicated, as has Robbie’s relationship with the younger Briony, who is now discovering boys for the first time.
Personality... dashing, educated, and clumsy. Robbie doesn’t know how to express his newfound feelings for Cecilia in person, so he turns to writing her a letter. But that doesn’t mean Robbie is afraid to make a move via the written word. He’s the kind of guy who opts for old-fashioned romance. With Robbie, chivalry is still very much alive.
Get to Know him in...
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As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
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On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper's son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with Briony's sister, has recently graduated from Cambridge.By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had never before dared to approach and will have become victims of the younger girl's scheming imagination. And Briony will have committed a dreadful crime, the guilt for which will color her entire life.
