Prologue
A List
Blue Monday
Horizontal Walking
Addicted to IVF
Can Rolls, Can’t Hepburn
Her Darling Child
AGONY!
Optimist or Pessimist?
Half a Biscuit
The Serpentine
Does Motherhood Make You Happy?
The Etiquette of Clothing
The Charity Worker
The Scientist
The Old Woman of Coniston
The Very Reverend
Mother Tallulah
The Ballerina
Molly
A Few Words on Jellyfish
Team Toe Dip
Frankenstein Dreaming
The Polar Explorer
Where’s the Manual?
The Ray, the Jellyfish and the Macrobiotic Mother
VO2 Max
The Internet Entrepreneur
Odi et Amo
The Businesswoman
The Solitude of Swimming
The Filmmaker
The Filmmaker, Part II
The Right Way Round
The Peter Pan Cup
The Iron(wo)man
The Politician
‘Ozymandias’
The Ice Queen Foster Mother
The Parakeet
Anonymous
The Publisher
The Restaurateur
Camp Eton
The Divorce Lawyer
Was It Because of the IVF?
So We Beat On
The Chief Constable
Beach Life
The General
Gertrude Ederle
The Gateway Woman
The Seven and Six
Ten Minutes
Dad and Mum
The One-Week Wait
Are You Asleep Yet?
Dear Peter
The Last Supper
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Patrons
Supporters
Copyright
