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Index
Cover
Half-Title Page
Dedication
Praise for
Series page
Title Page
Contents
Author’s Note
The Beginning and the End
Falling
Part 1 July 1846
The Big House
Dog’s Dinner
Stranger
The Nation
Spreading
Mrs Margaret Kennedy
Head Down
Up on the Hill
Change in the Weather
Loitering
The Terrible Storm
After the Storm
All Day
A Decent Dinner
Long Story
Rotten
A Secret
Stench
At the End of the Week
Summers Before
Heir
Doctor Riley
Part 2 August 1846
Shelley and Coleridge
Champagne
All the World’s Secrets
Mass
Seven Courses
After Dinner
A Name
Like We Were Familiar
Sissy Doyle
A Visit from the Priest
An Audience with Wicken
Two Weeks
Respectable
Time Enough
Carry-On
Percy Shelley
Wedding Day
The Hens
By Nightfall
Soupy
Alone in The Big House
Like Other Men
Then Again
Part 3 Late September 1846
Decisions
Intervention
All This Happens
By the River
Daydreaming
The Third Day
A Crust of Bread
Commotion
Bruised
In the Scullery
Sunken
Peeling
Making Plans
What I Like
Daddy Would Raise Hell
In the Kitchen
Punished
Aching
Saddled Up
Slowly
Feelings
His Hands
Strange
Collecting the Rent
Part 4 November 1846
An Announcement
Johnny’s Story
New Baby
The Helper
A Recipe for Forgetting
Once We Are Finished
A Fire Burns
In the Hallway
A Surprise
The Baby Is Better
Road Works
Rejected
Target
Gertie
Owen Whimpers
Sling
Peace and Quiet
Traitor
What Have I Done?
Waiting
Friends
By Candlelight
Back Home
The Morning After
Part 5 December 1846
A Present
Beautiful
And Yet
Silent
Princely
Thinking
Love Sick
Johnny and Owen
Last Rites
Midwinter
Together
The Shore
Keening
Part 6 January 1847
Removing the Roofs
The Witness
Johnny Is with Him
What Could He Have Done?
Johnny Says …
An Offering
By the Wall
Fever
By Morning
The Devil
Plucked
Owen Recovers
Found
When Owen Was Small
Faster
Frozen
Better Now?
Part 7 February 1847
Consecrated Ground
By the Old Oak Tree
What Else?
This Wailing
Questions
Without Owen
Back at The Big House
Right in Front of Me
Guilt
Charlatan
Leaving
By the River
Being Loved
Not Here
A Small Boy with Curls
Alive
I Do Not Want to See
Last Supper
At Dusk
No More
The Gathering
Every Day
Everything
Turnaround
He Is
An Irishman
Untold
Prayer
Accomplice
On My Mind
No One Will Get Hurt
Innocent
Long After
On Their Way
The Arrest
Hurt
In the Droveway
Beneath the Clear
The Shipment
Lumpy Leather
Books for Keeps
Come With Us
As If I Would Go
Half-Family
In Court
Damned
Michael Quinn
Wilting
Murphy
Reusable
At Sunset
Coffin Ships
Letting Go
Keepsake
Thunderstorm
Green-Hearted
The Last Thing
Johnny Waves Us Off
Gangplank
Heartbreak
The Mob
The Dresser
Gone
And
I’ll Love You
Away
The End and the Beginning
My Heart
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Copyright
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