Illustrations

  1 John Robert Fowles, aged thirteen

  2 John and Gladys May Fowles at Stonehenge, c.1935

  3 John with his sister Hazel and Sheila, the family dog

  4 John in uniform, c.1944

  5 John with vin et pain, Paris, 1948

  6 John in Paris, 1948

  7 1949 or early 1950s: ‘How I got a second at Oxford.’

  8 The Anargyrios and Korgialeneios School, Spetsai, Greece

  9 Members of staff of the Anargyrios School

10 John Fowles, headmaster Gerandopoulos, Denys Sharrocks, 1952

11 John in his room at the Anargyrios School, 1952

12 Monemvasia, 1952: ‘The beard begins.’

13 John with Elizabeth and Roy Christy, Spetsai

14 Anna, Roy and Elizabeth Christy and John Fowles, 1952

15 Elizabeth, Anna, Roy Christy and John with students of the Anargyrios School

16 Elizabeth and John, 1952

17 John and Elizabeth in Greece

18 John outside St Godric’s, Hampstead, c.1956

19 At 63 Fillebrook Avenue, Leigh-on-Sea, two days before Elizabeth Christy married John Fowles

20 Elizabeth and John, 28 Church Row, Hampstead

21 John at Church Row

22 John and Elizabeth

23 Elizabeth, John and ‘Podge’ Porter, en route to Northern France

24 John in Rome

25 Cheltenham Literary Festival, 1963: John Bayley, John Fowles, Iris Murdoch, J.B. Priestley, Anna Scott, Frederic Raphael, Gabriel Fielding

26 John and Elizabeth, Underhill Farm, Lyme Regis, Dorset

All photographs are from the collection of John Fowles and are reproduced by permission. Photograph no. 26 is by Terry Spencer.