PETER CHILDS is Pro Vice Chancellor, Research and Scholarship at Newman University, UK. He has published widely on postcolonial and twentieth-century literature. His recent publications include Modernism (2000), Contemporary Novelists (2004), and Reading Fiction: Opening the Text (2001), the last two of which are also published by Palgrave Macmillan.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionThe Fleshly Grail: First Love, Last RitesUnderworld: In Between the SheetsA Nice Sleep: The Cement GardenThe Desire to be a Victim: The Comfort of StrangersTrue Maturity: The Child in TimeNo Different From You: The InnocentÇa Suffit: Black DogsRationality is Its Own Kind of Innocence: Enduring LoveTheir Reasonable Laws: AmsterdamStorytelling as Self-justification: AtonementAnd Now, What Days Are These?: SaturdayNotesSelect BibliographyIndex.

PETER CHILDS is Pro Vice Chancellor, Research and Scholarship at Newman University, UK. He has published widely on postcolonial and twentieth-century literature. His recent publications include Modernism (2000), Contemporary Novelists (2004), and Reading Fiction: Opening the Text (2001), the last two of which are also published by Palgrave Macmillan.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionThe Fleshly Grail: First Love, Last RitesUnderworld: In Between the SheetsA Nice Sleep: The Cement GardenThe Desire to be a Victim: The Comfort of StrangersTrue Maturity: The Child in TimeNo Different From You: The InnocentÇa Suffit: Black DogsRationality is Its Own Kind of Innocence: Enduring LoveTheir Reasonable Laws: AmsterdamStorytelling as Self-justification: AtonementAnd Now, What Days Are These?: SaturdayNotesSelect BibliographyIndex.

PETER CHILDS is Pro Vice Chancellor, Research and Scholarship at Newman University, UK. He has published widely on postcolonial and twentieth-century literature. His recent publications include Modernism (2000), Contemporary Novelists (2004), and Reading Fiction: Opening the Text (2001), the last two of which are also published by Palgrave Macmillan.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionThe Fleshly Grail: First Love, Last RitesUnderworld: In Between the SheetsA Nice Sleep: The Cement GardenThe Desire to be a Victim: The Comfort of StrangersTrue Maturity: The Child in TimeNo Different From You: The InnocentÇa Suffit: Black DogsRationality is Its Own Kind of Innocence: Enduring LoveTheir Reasonable Laws: AmsterdamStorytelling as Self-justification: AtonementAnd Now, What Days Are These?: SaturdayNotesSelect BibliographyIndex.