Contents

Introduction

  1    Putting on a Show

  2    An Education

  3    The Devil’s Decade

  4    Married to the North Wind

  5    Things Fall Apart

  6    Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

  7    Sunburn Is So Unbecoming

  8    Laughter Among the Skulls

  9    A Cobweb of Affection

10    The Woods Are Full of Germans

11    The War Heroine

12    The Unbearable Peace

13    The Burden of the Day

14    Charades at Castle Leslie

15    ‘He Enchants My Every Moment’

16    A Sea Change

17    Complicated Chronicles

18    They All Talk Amusingly

19    Invented Lives

20    Jolly Old Age I’m Having

21    This Leslie Half-World

22    The Low-Down on the High-Ups

23    Deaths and Entrances

24    No Chance of a Warm Light Room

25    The War Revisited

26    Specialists in Survival

27    Back Where She Belonged

 

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Dramatis Personae

Anita’s Houses

A Note on the Author

Index

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