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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
PART I: One Night in the Lives of Five Writers
Map of London, 1940
Newsreel
Chapter 1 7 p.m.: Blackout
Chapter 2 10 p.m.: Fire
Chapter 3 1 a.m.: Rescue
Chapter 4 6 a.m.: All Clear
PART II: The Blitz
Chapter 5 ‘War, she thought, was sex’
Chapter 6 ‘Ireland can be dementing’
Chapter 7 ‘How we shall survive this I don’t know’
Chapter 8 ‘So much else is on the way to be lost’
PART III: The Lull
Chapter 9 ‘You are the ultimate of something’
Chapter 10 ‘Can pain and danger exist?’
Chapter 11 ‘Only at night I cry’
Chapter 12 ‘Alas, what hate everywhere’
PART IV: Approaching Victory
Chapter 13 ‘Droning things, mindlessly making for you’
Chapter 14 ‘A collective intoxication of happiness’
Chapter 15 ‘The days were listless and a flop’
PART V: Surveying the Ruins
Post-war Europe 1945–9
Chapter 16 ‘The magic Irish light and the soft air’
Chapter 17 ‘Flying, no, leaping, into the centre of the mainland’
Chapter 18 ‘O, maybe we’ll live a while in Killala’
Chapter 19 ‘The returning memory of a dream long forgotten’
Chapter 20 ‘The place I really did lose my heart to was Vienna’
PART VI: Mid-Century: Middle Age
Chapter 21 ‘We could have been happy for a lifetime’
Chapter 22 ‘Let us neither of us forget . . . what reality feels like and eternity is’
Chapter 23 ‘The world my wilderness, its caves my home’
Coda
Notes
Notes cont’d
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
A Note on the Author
By the Same Author
Copyright Page
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