Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction: The Disruption of Writing 1
5. 1. Early ‘Signs of Invasion’: Dance of the Happy Shades 19
6. 2. ‘So Many Created Worlds’: Lives of Girls and Women 43
7. 3. The Politics of Deferral: Power and Suspicion in Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You 74
8. 4. Acknowledging the Nether Voices: Signs of Instability in Who Do You Think You Are? 96
9. 5. Towards a Poetics of Surprise: ‘Change and Possibility’ in The Moons of Jupiter 122
10. 6. ’It’s What I Believe’: Patterns of Complicity in The Progress of Love 143
11. 7. (Re)construction and/as Deception in Friend of My Youth 169
12. Conclusion: The Problem of an Ending 185
13. Notes 189
14. Works Consulted 201
15. Index 207