Front Cover -- About the Author -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- I -- On Her Tiredness -- Mary Questions the Health Visitor -- 'No Ball Games etc' -- Round Robin -- Discipline -- The Plan -- Letterland -- Fifteen per cent of goodbye… -- Deferred Gratification -- Silly Mummy -- One Little Wish -- Astronomical -- Pessimism for Beginners -- II -- Something and Nothing -- Telling Strangers -- How I Feel Now -- Living Without You -- From a Stranger -- Exorcise -- Friday 13th February 2004 -- The Onus -- Manifest -- Imaginary Friend -- My Ideal Man -- Send -- III -- The Cutting Dead -- White Feathers -- Peace Offering -- In the Chill -- After the Axe -- The Way It Has to Be -- Nothing to Hide -- Let's Put the Past in Front of Us -- The Barring Arm -- Homewrecker -- Don't Say I Said -- Rubbish at Adultery -- Anyone Can Draw a Line -- Progress -- Limited -- from Chapter 1 of Hurting Distance.