Contents

Title Page
Epigraph
Foreword
Chapter One 1905: An Awfully Big Adventure
Chapter Two 1860–1900: A Rich Harvest of Possibility
Chapter Three 1895: A Key to Kensington Gardens
Chapter Four 1897: Spellbound
Chapter Five 1897: Barrie Comes Out
Chapter Six 1897–99: Lost Boy
Chapter Seven 1900: Peter and Michael Break Through
Chapter Eight 1901–03: Island Games
Chapter Nine 1901–03: Unrest Within the Family
Chapter Ten 1903–04: The Real Play
Chapter Eleven 1904–05: Arthur’s Retreat
Chapter Twelve 1905–07: Death Takes a Hand
Chapter Thirteen 1906: Barrie’s Scotland
Chapter Fourteen 1907: The Widow Sylvia
Chapter Fifteen 1908: Dependence and Uncertainty
Chapter Sixteen 1909: Mind Games and Manoeuvres
Chapter Seventeen 1910: No Idle Steer
Chapter Eighteen 1910–11: Scourie: Learning to Fly
Chapter Nineteen 1912: The Outer Hebrides: Catching Mary Rose
Chapter Twenty 1913–14: Broken to Eton
Chapter Twenty-One 1914–15: Loving, J. M. B.
Chapter Twenty-Two 1915: The Blue Bird of Happiness
Chapter Twenty-Three 1916–17: Home Fires Burning
Chapter Twenty-Four 1917–18: Michael Turns Away
Chapter Twenty-Five 1918: The Real Peter Pan
Chapter Twenty-Six 1918: Within the Gothic Chamber
Chapter Twenty-Seven 1919: Oxford
Chapter Twenty-Eight 1919: Garsington
Chapter Twenty-Nine 1920: Romance
Chapter Thirty 1920: Michael Breaks Out
Chapter Thirty-One 1920: Between Earth and Paradise
Chapter Thirty-Two 1920–21: Barrie Gets His Way
Chapter Thirty-Three 1921: Disposal
Afterword
Acknowledgements
Sources
Index
Plates
Copyright