This final chapter uniquely offers us a chance to see letters written by Eileen to Orwell. Several of these were received after her death, and so it seems the normally unsentimental Orwell retained them. They show Eileen and Orwell negotiating the adoption and care of their son, Richard. In the final months of her life, we find Eileen moving out of London with Richard and staying with her sister-in-law in the North East of England. Her letters are full of the delight in observing their infant son, providing charming details expressed in her whimsical style. The love of word play that she first expressed in her school days is with her throughout these letters. We have the last words she wrote, in a letter to Orwell, just as the anaesthetic that would kill her took hold. In a life lived through writing, this is a poignant end to our book.