Contents

About the Author

Preface

Part One: Croydon

Chapter One

The Museum of Me

When Two Became One

Opening Night

Kindergarten and Junior School

Pets

Nineteen

Bitten

High Days and Holidays

Part Two: Cambridge (1988 – 91)

Go East

New Hall

Melanie

Auld Reekie

Part Three: London

The Trouble with London

Out And About

Let Them Eat Lunch

A Gram of Gorilla

Births, Deaths, Marriages

Part Four: Cornwall

The Ballad of Pickle and Parker, or How I Fell in Love

A Shock to the System

The Nuts End Up at the Bottom

Music, Maestra, Please

Oh No, I Can’t

All Cats Are Grey

The End of the Line

A Letter to Pickle

Back to Black

The Cock and the Car

Getting It Wrong

The Power of Trance

It’s All Over the Front Page

I Am Become Cake, the Destroyer of Midriffs

Part Five: The Rest of the World

The Dalton Highway

The Ho Chi Minh Trail

Epilogue

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