May Week was in June

	Contents
			Preface
	1		Gentlemen, Sport Your Oaks!
	2		The Dear Old College
	3		Sleeping Tiger
	4		Unquiet Flow the Dons
	5		Yanks on the Cam
	6		Meet Keith Visconti
	7		The Ostrich Alternative
	8		Well Interrupted, Pembroke
	9		Wanting and Found Tested
	10		Attack of the Killer Bee
	11		Full Velvet Jacket
	12		Hell Below Zero
	13		Fantasy Island
	14		Frisbees Fly at Dusk
	15		Hit of the Fringe
	16		Black Tie, White Knuckles
	17		With a Human Face
	18		The Kid’s Last Fight
			Epilogue

“Arriving in Cambridge on my first day as an undergraduate, I could see nothing except a cold white October mist. At the age of twenty-four I was a complete failure, with nothing to show for my life except a few poems nobody wanted to publish in book form.”

Falling Towards England — the second volume of Unreliable Memoirs — was meant to be the last. Thankfully, that's not the case. In Unreliable Memoirs III, May Week Was in June, Clive details his time at Cambridge, including film reviewing, writing poetry, falling in love (often), and marrying (once) during May Week — which was not only in June but also two weeks long ...

First published 1990 by Jonathan Cape.

in memoriam
Mark Boxer and Tom Weiskel
and to
Gabriella Rosselli del Turco
where she lies sleeping

To Norman North,
with thanks

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— Rousseau, Les Confessions

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