Contents

Cover

Title Page

PROLOGUE
Saturday evening

1. Group Portrait

PART ONE
Saturday evening

2. The Art of Engine Driving (I)

3. Pausing by the Paddock (I)

4. Pausing by the Paddock (II)

5. Studying Ray Lindwall

6. The Bruchners

7. Speed

8. A Slight Accident

9. The Big Wheel

10. Albert Younger

11. Patsy Bedser

12. The Grand Mal

13. Diesel and Steam (I)

14. The Arrival of a Bicycle

15. Pay Day

16. Smoothing the Rails

17. Papa

18. Ten Lousy Shillings

19. Don’t Be Cruel

20. The Endless Sky

21. Mr Van Rijn

22. The Art of Engine Driving (II)

23. The Six O’Clock Swill

24. Mr Malek

25. Diesel and Steam (II)

26. The Red Letter Box

27. Love Songs

28. George Bedser

29. The View from Pretty Sally

30. Night

PART TWO
Saturday night

31. Bedser’s Front Yard

32. Vic and Evie

33. The End of the Double Bed

34. Vic’s Women

35. The Slap

36. A Solitary Game

37. The Speeches

38. Mother’s Girl

39. The Laugh

40. The Last of Vera

41. Diesel and Steam (III)

42. Dancing with Evie

43. Steam and Diesel

44. Bloody Michelangelo

45. The Last Dance

46. The Invitation

47. The View from the Schoolyard Pines

EPILOGUE
Sunday morning

48. The Bells

Acknowledgements

About A&R

About the Author

Other Books by Steven Carroll

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