1. Preface
2. Picture of domestic bliss
3. Meet Jane & Rob. Rob is having an affair with Effie. Both relationships end at the end of the chapter.
4. Effie and Rob go on parallel benders of epic proportions. Effie falls into vague relationship with Rob’s friend Smoky. Smoky goes at the end of the chapter on duty call to his mother in Lakes.
5. Lydia’s dad’s died. Nat returns to childhood home for first time in 20 years to help; everything’s the same yet different. Old haunts... Spends time with a former friend of her dad’s, Charlie Edson.
6. Jon Members, lecturer and uni friend, pick Rob up and dusts him down. Gives him a lecture or two about success, self-respect and the importance of getting on.
7. Smoky’s being exasperated by his mother’s reminiscences. Meets Nat accidentally over coffee as he’s escaping (as she is from her dad), Her dad denounces Smoky’s mother as a parasite.
8. Effie has a huge falling out with father and leaves, her family refusing to speak to her. College is falling apart, but she has support from Prof. Members.
9. Rob’s trying to make a go of a relationship with Emma. She has different priorities though, like Ikea, catalogues and new.
10. Charlie supports Lydia as she copes with selling factory site and the memories of her father. Many never forgave him for the 80s strike and closure. Memories of Annie, as well as resentment at his son for being an estate agent. Thinks well of grandson who’s a bespoke tailor.
11. Members is shagging Effie.
12. Smoky is alone in his house and can’t cope with the fact that he’s unrecognised. Sees his life as a futile failure of popularity masking no substance. Kills himself.
13. Nat meets Rob for first time since school at Smoky’s funeral. Wonders where the boy she used to know has gone. They almost sleep together, but she shags Members instead. Emma flits around, annoyed by the past.
14. * hahahaha I know 
15. Members leaves university to pursue media career, Effie meets a young bespoke tailor who’s promoting a folk night as a hobby. She leaves Members, who’s drinking heavily.
16. Charlie Edson dies. Nat & Lydia are at the funeral, along with Nat’s dad. Mick spends a long time bitterly talking of the old days when work was real.
17. Rob sells Smoky’s house and moves into a big old Edwardian house overlooking the sea and some ruins. He spends his days making bits of furniture, watching the sea and walking on the old railway line that used to run behind the house.
18. Members is increasingly ubiquitous on the television, writing scripts and leading conferences. He’s drinking increasingly though, and is at pains to point out at a party how new his architect designed glass house is.
19. ... undecided
20. ... undecided
21. I know this but I’m not sharing.