This book contains a collection of short stories. In this book, the author explores themes that revolve around childhood sensuality and the challenges of growing up in the Victorian era. The book contains: The End of a Childhood: Four Further Chapters In The Life of Cuffy Mahony - Growing Pains: Sketches of Girlhood - The Bathe - Three in a Row - Preliminary Canter - Conversation in a Pantry - The Bath - The Wrong Turning - "And Women Must Weep" - Two Hanged Women - Two Tales of Old Strasbourg: Life and Death of Peterle Luthy - The Professor's Experiment - Succedaneum - Mary Christina - The Coat - Sister Ann