Paul Marshall

• 'So nearly handsome, so unfathomably rich, so unfathomably stupid'

  • cecilias view of paul
• 'Marshall took control of the conversation with a ten minute monologue'
• 'Offered them cigarettes from a gold case.'
• 'Kinked like pubic hair'

  • sexual description
• 'He woke, hot across his chest and throat, uncomfortably aroused'
• 'He offended some elderly bishops'

  • morally wrong
• 'As she passed she felt him touch her lightly on her forearm. Or it may have been a leaf'

  • foreshadows events with lola
  • touches cecilia
• 'Like desperate dan. Cruel face, but his manner was pleasant'

  • twins description of marshall
• 'Only fractions of an inch kept him from cruel good looks'
• 'Paul Marshall did not recognise Briony'


  • at the wedding
• 'The cruelly handsome plutocrat'

  • paul marshall in London 1999
• 'Perhaps he's spent a lifetime making amends. Or perhaps he just swept onwards to live the life that was always his.'