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Any Human Heart

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by William Boyd


  St Botolph’s Hospital, Peckham, LMS in Ward C, 411–18

  Sainte-Sabine, Lot, 410; described, 446; and the Verdel murders, 476–7; location of LMS’s grave, 489

  Samsom, Lucy, LMS’s first love, 16 & n.; first kiss, 18; letters to LMS at school, 36; takes LΜS to Leith docks, 281 & n.; visits Cinq Cyprès, 454; 456; announces news of Peter Scabius’s death, 459; ageing, 463; searches vainly for Octet, 490

  Santo, Ricardo Espirito, host of Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Lisbon, 214; 217

  Sartre, Jean-Paul, 291

  Scabius, Peter, LMS’s oldest friend, 13; his ‘challenge’, 23; kisses Tess Clough, 38; masturbated by Tess, 40; his alarm at Tess’s arrival in Oxford, 69–70; sets up Tess in Islip, 73–4; father suspicious, 87; marries Tess, 121; working on Reading newspaper, 121; godfather to LMS’s son, 151; publishes first novel, Beware of the Dog, 173; success of novel, 177; marriage to Tess in difficulties, 178; publication of third novel, 204; confrontation with LMS about Tess, 205; joins Auxiliary Fire Brigade, 211; guilt over Tess’s death, 224; joins Catholic Church, 224; writing of Guilt, novel about Tess, 227; huge success of Guilt, 253; marries again, 253; 278; affair with Gloria Ness-Smith, 292; marries Gloria Ness-Smith, 310; in New York with Gloria, 312–13; Already Too Late, novel about nuclear proliferation, 362; in tax exile, 400; at Gloria’s funeral, 409; knighted for services to literature, 430; death in Falkland Islands, 459

  Schubert, Jerry, Leeping Fils’ lawyer, 349; advises LMS on potential rape charge, 370

  Scully, Charles, 387

  ‘Sergeant Bilko’, 341

  Shakespeare, William, 321

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe, LMS’s book on, 65; LMS’s description of, 68; 71; title for book, 75 & n.; Prometheus Unbound, 75; ‘Mont Blanc’, 75n.; LMS continues with biography, 109; published and

  reviewed, 130

  Signoret, Simone, 326

  Simeon, LMS’s cook in Nigeria, 381; embarks with LMS to Biafra, 384

  Singh, ‘Subadar’, LMS’s upstairs neighbour in Turpentine Lane, 416; buys LMS’s flat for cash, 453

  Situation, The, the SPK’s newspaper, 423; LMS as prize vendor, 425

  Skarga, Zygmunt, 387

  Snow, Squadron Leader, LMS’s Bahamas link with NID, 234

  Soutar, Henry, ‘The Lizard’, LMS’s housemaster, 22 & n.; as loathsome old bigot, 24; beats LMS, 61

  Spanish Civil War, background, 178; LMS commissioned to write articles on, 178; Barcelona and Valencia during, 179–82; Aragón front described, 188–90; and Madrid, 190–95

  Spellbrook, Conn., LMS visits, 309

  SPK (Socialits Patients’ Kollective), 420; LMS joins, 423; origins of, 426; LMS joins ‘Working Circle – Direct Action’, 431

  Sprymont & Drew, LMS’s first publishers, 116; LMS becomes reader for, 205

  Stalingrad, 233

  Stefanelli, Jean-Robert, 457; on Sainte-Sabine’s wartime past, 470; discovers LMS’s body, 489

  Summer at Saint-Jean, LMS’s second novel, proposed, 170; sold in advance, 177; three chapters written, 199; LMS burns manuscript, 226

  Sumner Place, South Kensington, the Mountstuart home in London, 71; first paying guests, 140; with eighteen paying guests, 221; condemnable, 323

  Sutherland, Graham, 289n.

  Switzerland, 257; LMS parachutes into, 261

  Tate, Nat, American painter, LMS meets, 317; LMS visits studio, 336–7 & n.; offers to rework LMS’s Nat Tates, 346; inspired by visit to Braque’s studio, 347 & n.; suicide, 348

  Thatcher, Margaret, elected Prime Minister, 453

  Thomsett, Keith, Mr & Mrs, 278

  Thorpe Hall, Norfolk, LMS’s first married home, described, 146–7

  Three Days of the Condor, 435 & n.

  Times, The, Peter Scabius’s article in, 287

  Tjorn, lake in Reykjavik, 284

  ‘Tommy’, Stella Mountstuart’s puppy, 258; 401 & n

  Townsend, Sergeant, parachute instructor, 256

  Tozer, Sergeant, his bellicosity, 53–4; and Corps exercise, 57

  Tranmere, Margot, 379

  Turpentine Lane, no. IOB, Pimlico, LMS’s last London flat, purchased, 289; moves back from New York to, 370; redecorated, 377; returns to from Africa, 397; sold to Subadar Singh, 453

  Uli airstrip, Biafra, 391

  University College of Ikiri, Nigeria, LMS appointed lecturer, 375

  Upper East Side, New York, LMS moves to, 335

  Upper West Side, New York, LMS’s dislike of, 319

  urban life, LMS’s affinity for, 352–3

  Uruguay, LMS’s birthplace, 5; described, 7

  v-2 rocket, 278; LMS finds crater of, 286

  Valencia, LMS visits (1936), described, 181; second visit (1937), 186

  Vanderpoel, James, First XV hooker, 43; meets LMS, 44; bribed by LMS, 45; at NID, 213; travels to Lisbon with LMS, 214; ill-health in Lisbon, 219, 278; headmaster of girls’ school, 293,

  Velázquez, 321

  Verdel, Benoit, Gabrielle Dupetit’s father, memorial plaque placed, 466; plaque defaced, 469; true history of, 476–7

  Vichy France, severs diplomatic relations with Britain, 219

  Villa by the Lake, The, LMS’s war novella, started, 295; publication and reviews, 301

  Vivian, John, head of SΡK, LMS meets, 422; relations with LMS, 432–4; sends LMS on SPK mission, 434; goes underground, 449; last meeting with LMS, 450 & n.

  ‘Voyeur’s Luck’, LMS’s concept of, 330

  Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, 312, 313

  Warhol, Andy, his graphic skills, 359; 367

  Waugh, Evelyn, allegedly kisses LMS, 76; 77 & n.; congratulates LMS, 132; talks about Catholicism, 133 & n.; his love of Oxford, 149; discusses Spanish Civil War with LMS, 182; asks LMS about marriage, 183 & n.; 379; loss of teeth, 404

  Weiss, Ted, LMS’s US editor, 307

  Wenner-Gren, Axel, Swedish millionaire, Nazi sympathizer and friend of the Duke of Windsor, 228; friend of Goering, 232

  Wilson, Edmund, his Anglophobia, 316

  Wilson, Harold, British Prime Minister, 388 & n.; equated with Adolf Hitler, 388

  Windsor, Duchess of, in Biarritz (when Mrs Simpson), 167; in Lisbon (1940), described, 216; LMS meets, 220; her gratitude to LMS, 221; in Government House, Bahamas, 228; her opinion of Bahamas, 231; at dinner, 237; her effect on the Duke, 238; her hatred of LMS, 246; in New York, 313; her enduring hatred for LMS, 360

  Windsor, Duke of, LMS meets (when Prince of Wales), 167; affair with Mrs Simpson, 172; abdication crisis discussed, 183; abdicates, broadcasts to the nation, 184 & n.; LMS meets in Lisbon (1940), 216; LMS golfs with, 217; his gratitude to LMS, 221; sails to Bahamas, 221; LMS meets in Bahamas, 231; golfs with LMS, 236; reaction to Oakes’s murder, 243; hostility towards LMS, 245; his connection to Colonel Marion, 295; described, 359; final encounter with LMS, 360

  Wodehouse, P. G., 228

  Woolf, Virginia, meets LMS at Garsington, 99 & n.; contretemps with Le Mayne, her personality discussed, 102; To the Lighthouse, LMS’s dislike of, 150; discussed, 158; defended, 168; abuses Cyril Connolly’s wife, 171; is rebuked by LMS, 171; cuts LMS dead, 171; suicide, 222; 379

  Yeats, W. B., 291

  Yorke, Henry (Henry Green), meets LMS, 91

  Zemsche, Charlie, on hotel-life, 332

  Zippo lighter, LMS’s life saved by, 301

  Zollo, fraudulent painter, 312

  Zurich, LMS returns with Petra and Ingeborg, 440

  Table of Contents

  Cover

  Title Page

  Copyright Page

  Any Human Heart

  Preamble to these Journals

  The School Journal

  The Oxford Journal

  The First London Journal

  The Second World War Journal

  The Post-War Journal

  The New York Journal

  The African Journal

  The Second London Journal

  The French Journal

  Afterword

  Works by Logan Mountstuartr />
  Index

  Footnotes

  Chapter 01

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  Chapter 02

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