Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- The Catafalque -- Our Heroine -- The 31-year-old Woman Falls in Love -- The 31-year-old Woman Makes a Salad -- Our Heroine's Mother Makes an Entrance -- Our Heroine's Step-Father and His...
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Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- The Catafalque -- Our Heroine -- The 31-year-old Woman Falls in Love -- The 31-year-old Woman Makes a Salad -- Our Heroine's Mother Makes an Entrance -- Our Heroine's Step-Father and His Fateful Influence -- Art Historical Romance -- Various Objectionable Bits of Our Heroine's Body -- Our Heroine in Jeans -- Our Heroine's Strict Notions of Propriety -- The 31-year-old Woman's Attitude to Relationships -- The Letter 'Q' -- Prancing -- Pol's Mother -- The Seminar -- Pol on Men -- Pol on Women -- Pol Transported -- The Tunnel of Love -- Pol's Job -- Encounters with Cragshaw -- The Rescue of Isabella -- Our Heroine's New Life -- Pol on Nuts -- One Summer Evening -- The 32-year-old Woman Walks Home -- Our Hero at Last -- Our Hero's Mother -- Our Hero's Mother Again -- Our Hero's Education -- Our Hero's Hamsters -- Our Hero's Sister Sandy -- Our Hero's Adolescence -- Our Hero's Job -- The Splendid Young Man's Proposal -- The Splendid Young Man's Actual Written Proposal -- The Splendid Young Man and His Tennis Court -- Pol's Plan -- The 32-year-old Woman's Inviolable Heterosexuality -- Bad Eyesight -- My Hands on the Wall -- Splutters to the Rescue -- In Pol's Drawers -- The 33-year-old Woman's Selflessness -- Still Life with Cragshaw -- Our Heroine Makes Some Suppositions -- Their First Date -- Pregnant! -- The Lotus Position -- The 33-year-old Woman's Unsuccessful Talk -- Paris in the Spring: I -- Paris in the Spring: II -- Paris in the Spring: III -- Paris in the Spring: IV -- Paris in the Spring: V -- 'Foetal Heart Heard' -- Paris in the Spring: VI -- Exit Robert, Pursued by a Bear -- Shit! -- Our Hero Regresses -- Our Hero Feels Inspired -- Gail's Mother -- 6,000-mile Abyss -- Bananas -- Playboy of the Western World -- Longing for a Man -- Romp in a Hotel -- Splutters' Nanny A Decline in Relations -- Our Hero's Job -- Contrary to Public Belief -- Hot Potatoes -- Important Advice -- Our Hero's Sister Sandy -- Sofas -- Disgust -- Out and About -- A Barren World -- The Happy Ending -- The 34-year-old Woman in Limbo -- Our Heroine's End -- 'Donuts Ex Machina' -- Personal Space -- Yet Another Ending (In Which Nobody Dies ) -- The Beginning of the End -- A Note on the Author -- By the Same Author -- eCopyright
