CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Author’s note

Family tree

Prologue

PART ONE

THE HOUSE: OBSESSION

1 Dick and Vita

2 Exile

3 The House

4 The Boy

5 A Public-School Boy

6 A Good War

7 Literary Connections: 2006

8 Shadows under the Cedars

9 False Trails

10 Welsh Connections

11 Reading Romance

12 Nearer, My House, to Thee

13 The Fulfilment of a Dream

PART TWO

THE HOUSE: POSSESSION

1 I Hate and I Love (The Lists My Father Never Made)

2 Family Snaps

3 A Question of Appearance

4 Betrayal

5 On the Road

6 Cherry Orchard Blues

7 Ganymede

8 The House Divided

Epilogue

List of Illustrations