The Continuum Concept by Jean Liedloff, published by Penguin. www.continuum-concept.org.
Social Theory and Social Structure by Robert K. Merton, published by Free Press.
Could Do Better: School Reports of the Great and the Good, edited by Catherine Hurley, published by Simon & Schuster.
Atkinson/Atkinson/Smith/Hilgard. Introduction to Psychology, 9E. © 1987 South-Western, a part of Cengage Learning, Inc. Reproduced by permission. www.cengage.com/permissions
The passage about Benjamin Libet is taken from a New Scientist article, ‘The Grand Delusion’ by Graham Lawton. © 2011 Reed Business Information Ltd, England. All rights reserved. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency.
In chapter 12, ‘with the salt wind from the sea’ is from Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, published by Virago and reproduced with the permission of Curtis Brown.
In chapter 13, the poet heard talking on the radio is Ross Sutherland, www.rosssutherland.co.uk, who was talking on BBC Radio 4’s Short Cuts.
In chapter 17, I have quoted from Tricks of the Mind by Derren Brown. Published by Transworld. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Limited.
The Alan Sillitoe story mentioned in chapter 18 is ‘A Time to Keep’, and the extract is reproduced with the permission of Ruth Fainlight.
The epigraph preceding chapter 21 is from The Hotel New Hampshire © 1981 Garp Enterprises, Ltd, by permission of the author and The Cooke Agency.
I have also quoted from The Lure of the Sea: The Discovery of the Seaside in the Western World 1750–1840 by Alain Corbin, translated by Jocelyn Phelps, published by Penguin; The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H. P. Lovecraft; and The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud, translated by James Strachey. The line ‘I am the master of my fate’ is from ‘Invictus’ by William Ernest Henley. The line ‘and underneath is everything we don’t know and are afraid of knowing’ is from D. H. Lawrence’s essay ‘New Mexico’. The short film The Death of Tom is by the artist Glenn Ligon. The ‘old silent film’ whose intertitles are quoted is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Famous Players-Lasky, 1920). Bonnie’s reference to the still life by Cézanne is a combination of D. H. Lawrence’s description in ‘Introduction to These Paintings’, Late Essays and Articles: ‘Walls twitch and slide, chairs bend or rear up a little, cloths curl like burning paper’, and the description in Janson’s History of Art: ‘Cézanne took these liberties with reality’. The reference to ‘Stan Laurel, who was always in some kind of trouble, some kind of foolish danger’ is a nod to Kurt Vonnegut’s observation of the ‘terrible tragedy’ of Laurel and Hardy, who ‘are in terrible danger all the time. They could so easily be killed’. The Rough Guide volume mentioned is Women Travel. The parkour expert referred to is Daniel Ilabaca, co-founder of the World Parkour and Freerunning Federation. The lines ‘My Bonnie lies over the ocean, my Bonnie lies over the sea’, ‘Bring back, bring back, oh bring back my Bonnie to me’ and ‘Last night as I lay on my pillow … Last night as I lay on my bed … Last night as I lay on my pillow … I dreamt that my Bonnie was dead’ are from the folk song ‘My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean’.