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Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Part One: Mystery

1. 2001: The Skip

2. The Ribena box

3. The Freshest diaries …

4. Flatface

5. The Torso box

6. A Chapter of curses

7. Wor

8. As soon as I had the idea …

9. Nothing is certain

10. Ancestors

11. It was easy to get in …

12. Two close shaves

13. Birth

14. A Chapter of celebrations: birthdays from thirteen to sixty-two

15. The Oldest book

16. Vince, private detective

17. The Second stabbing

18. Growing up

19. Sex

20. What a queer set up

21. Oh, glorious blaze!

22. I have been stuck in this room twenty one years …

23. Who E?

24. Despite the fact that time passes with treacle-like languor …

25. Who E? (cont.)

26. For years, Flora has been telling me …

Part Two: Crisis

27. The End of history

28. Auntie’s Tea Shop is a seaside shop …

29. Hello! Are you Laura Francis?

30. Epitaph

Part Three: Biography

31. Laura Penrose Francis

32. PS

Footnote

Acknowledgements

Also by Alexander Masters

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