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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Acknowledgements
Family Trees
Notes on Historical Characters
Contents
PART ONE: Where the Nice Girls Live
1 Christmas at ‘Clare’, 1956
2 The Connotations of Sausages
3 Perpetual Succour
4 More about Mottoes
5 Family Trees
6 The Nice Girls
7 Correspondence
8 If
9 Respect: the Odyssey of the Walnut Table
10 Our Father’s Daughters
PART TWO: Mad Meg
11 The Art of Bamboozlement
12 Encroachment
13 The Politics of Kite-Flying and the Elusiveness of Cash
14 Dadda’s Beginnings
15 Reason, Religion and Folly
16 Mad Meg’s Basket
17 History and Moving into It
PART THREE: Good Intentions
18 Christmas and an Explanation
19 Uncle Nicola
20 Displacement and Despoliation
21 David
22 A Table in the Presence of Enemies
23 The Crushing
PART FOUR: The Promised Land
24 Translating
25 Modernity and Obsolescence
26 Allegra
27 Relations
28 At Harry’s Beach House
29 Paris
30 Faking It
31 Justice and Liberty
32 Homage to Bruegel
About the author
Copyright Page
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