Chapters (59)
- Cover
- Praise for C J Skuse
- About the Author
- Booklist
- Note to Readers
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Wednesday, 22 January 2020 – Barnes & Noble, Fifth Avenue, New York City
- Part 1: Europe
- Wednesday, 22 January 2020 – Sluggers Bar, Fifth Avenue, New York City
- Monday, 31 December 2018 – at sea – one day to Madeira
- Tuesday, 1 January 2019 – Madeira
- Wednesday, 2 January – Cadiz
- Thursday, 3 January – Gibraltar
- Friday, 4 January – Cartagena
- Saturday, 5 January – Valencia
- Sunday, 6 January – Mallorca
- Monday, 7 January – Barcelona
- Tuesday, 8 January – Marseille
- Wednesday, 9 January – Genoa
- Thursday, 10 January – Florence
- Thursday evening, 10 January – at sea
- Friday, 11 January – Rome
- Part 2: Mexico
- Sunday, 13 January – Aeropuerto Internacional Benito Juárez
- Sunday, 20 January – Hacienda Santuario
- Monday, 21 January – Hacienda Santuario
- Thursday, 24 January – Hacienda Santuario
- Saturday, 26 January – Hacienda Santuario
- Monday, 28 January – Hacienda Santuario
- Monday, 4 February – Hacienda Santuario
- Wednesday, 6 February – Hacienda Santuario
- Friday, 15 February – Hacienda Santuario – the day before surgery starts
- Monday, 18 February – Hacienda Santuario
- Wednesday, 6 March – Hacienda Santuario
- Friday, 15 March – Hacienda Santuario
- Friday, 29 March – Hacienda Santuario
- Friday, 5 April – Hacienda Santuario
- Wednesday, 17 April – Hacienda Santuario
- Monday, 29 April – Hacienda Santuario
- Sunday, 5 May – Hacienda Santuario
- Tuesday, 7 May – Playa Tortuga, Rocas Calientes
- Thursday, 9 May – Holiday Inn en el Agua, Rocas Calientes
- Friday, 10 May – the beachfront, Rocas Calientes
- Monday, 13 May – Hacienda Santuaria
- Monday, 3 June (early) – Hacienda Santuaria
- Thursday, 6 June – Hacienda Santuaria
- Friday, 14 June – Holiday Inn el Agua, Rocas Calientes
- Sunday, 16 June – Holiday Inn el Agua, Rocas Calientes
- Wednesday, 19 June – St Christopher’s Hospital, Colonia Centro, San Jose del Cabo
- Part 3: New York State
- Wednesday, 22 January 2020 – Sluggers Bar, Fifth Avenue, New York City
- Thursday, 23 January – Greyhound bus from JFK Airport, Queens to Manchester, Vermont
- Thursday, 23 January – Burlington International Airport, Vermont
- Acknowledgements
- Extract
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- About the Publisher
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ELLIS
Monday, 21st October
I can’t read this Hello! magazine again. There’s only so many times I can admire Brooklyn Beckham’s left armpit. It’s not as though there’s anything else to read either. There’s a Vogue with dried snot on the contents page. And Charlize Theron is on the cover of Cosmo so I can’t even touch that one. I’ve been afraid of her since Snow White. Keep thinking she’ll come out of the page and bite me.
So, in the absence of reading material, I’m squinting at a cockroach scuttling across the floor with a clump of shorn hair on its back like some tiny game show host. My own hair sits lankly around my ears – it can’t wait another day. I’ll give it another five minutes before I go back to the flat and dye it myself over the bath with a kit.
And now the baby’s grizzling. I’ve tried sticking my knuckle in her mouth but she’s hungry. I’m not feeding her here. How can you talk to a perfect stranger quite politely one moment and then flop your boob out the next? How do women do that? And what is the stranger supposed to do? Not look at it? A boob is my third most private part after my feet and my noo-noo. I’d look. Not for long, but I would look.