Chapter 1: ‘Very little money on either side’:
The Churchills and Jeromes
Chapter 2: ‘How I long for you to be back with sacks of gold’:
Spendthrift Parents, 1875–94
Chapter 3: ‘We are damned poor’: Distant Army Duty, 1895–9
Chapter 5: ‘Needlessly extravagant’:
Bachelor, Author, MP, 1900–5
Chapter 6: No ‘rich heiress’:
Junior Minister and Marriage, 1906–8
Chapter 7: ‘The Pug is décassé’:
The HMS Enchantress Years, 1909–14
Chapter 8: ‘The clouds are blacker and blacker’:
The Legacy of War, 1914–18
Chapter 9: ‘It is like floating in a bath of cream’:
A Timely Train Crash, 1918–21
Chapter 10: ‘Our castle in the air’:
A Country Seat at Last, 1921–2
Chapter 11: ‘What about the 50,000 quid Cassel gave you?’:
Out of Office, 1923–4
Chapter 12: ‘No more champagne is to be bought’:
Chancellor under Pressure, 1925–8
Chapter 13: ‘Friends and former millionaires’:
Making – and Losing – a New World Fortune, 1928–9
Chapter 14: ‘He is writing all over the place’:
A Strategy for Survival, 1930–1
Chapter 15: ‘Poor Marlborough has been shunted’:
Trading Futures, 1932–3
Chapter 16: ‘The work piles up ahead’:
Summoning More Ghosts, 1934–5
Chapter 17: ‘We can carry on for a year or two more’:
Films, Columns and Debts, 1935–7
Chapter 18: ‘I shall never forget’:
Bracken and Partner to the Rescue, 1937–8
Chapter 19: ‘The future opens its jaws upon us’:
Struggling with History, 1938–9
Chapter 20: ‘All my arrangements depend on this payment’:
Early Burdens of War, 1939–41
Chapter 21: ‘Taxed to the utmost’:
Film Turns the Tide, 1942–5
Chapter 22: ‘A most profitable purdah’:
Minting the Memoirs, 1945–6
Chapter 23: ‘Agreeably impressed’:
Selling the Memoirs, 1946–8
Chapter 24: ‘The unfolding of time, life and fortune’:
Racing to the Finish, 1948–50
Chapter 25: ‘An insatiable need for money’:
Post-war Prime Minister, 1951–5
Chapter 26: ‘I shall lay an egg a year’:
A Third and Final Retirement, 1955–7
Chapter 27: ‘Good business’:
Sunset, 1958–65