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Index
Prologue – Flowers, 1957
PART ONE
Betty, 1941
The Last Goodbye, 1945
Always Summer, 1946–1956
Leeds Road, Huddersfield, 1956
Not Just Mastitis
Floaters and Swings
The New Dress
Shamed
Forgotten
Letting Go, 1958
The Stranger
Grandma Cooke and the Wish
The New House, 1959
Moving Again, 1960
Pig Swill and the Pee Bucket
Scrap Heap for Scruffs, 1963
Mademoiselle, an Epidiascope and Mr Wood
Bullying and Blackmail, 1965
Running Away with Toffee
PART TWO
Muriel
The Wedding
Padlocks, Silence and Betrayal
The Miracle Mother, 1966
The Pressure Cooker
Teen Idols
Shoes
The Worm Turns, Then Shrivels
Muriel vs School
Tea and Kindness
Out of Control
Cash Cow, 1967
Nature and Perversion
PART THREE
Freedom
The Japanese Flag and the Listening Tom
First Visit Home, 1967
Arthur
The Drudge
Young at Last, 1968–1969
An Education, 1970–1978
The Reunion
PART FOUR
Golden Handcuffs, 1978–1982
Nobody Home
A Wish List, 1982–1988
Empathy
Norman, 1991
A Little Girl’s Daddy
What Doesn’t Kill You... 1992–2007
Moving Down South Again, 2008–2013
Finding Eddie, 2016
Epilogue – Pearl in the Oyster
Acknowledgements
Author’s Note
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