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William Brodrick, in a career change that reverses that of his character Father Anselm's, was an Augustinian friar before leaving in order to become a practicing barrister.
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Could you describe the genesis of The 6th Lamentation? How does you own
family history relate to the novel?
The novel springs from two sources. The first is personal. During the
occupation of Holland my mother was part of a group who tried to smuggle Jewish
children to safety. She was caught and imprisoned. The memory of what the Nazis
did lay fresh upon her for the rest of her life. She talked little about her own
experience, but always with a charged brevity. I wanted to write a memorial to
her and that terrible time. The second source is rather prosaic. For a long time
I had thought that a former lawyer who had become a monk—a natural blend of the
practical and the reflective—would make an interesting character in fiction,
especially if he was a person of faith who understood the troubled questions of
today without possessing any trim answers. The novel grew from bringing together
these two streams of interest.
As someone who left the monastery to become a lawyer, do you now see issues
of justice more in terms of their legal or their theological implications? Or is
it impossible to separate the two?
I cannot separate them. Or perhaps I should say the imperative to implement
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