Preface
1. Whose car is this, Daddy?
2. Hi, I’m Robert and I have two cars
3. Are you fucking kidding me! I’m gay as well?
4. Boy meets Beast
5. No ginger prince for the wash boy
6. Pause, breathe, speak and release
7. Faking it
8. Unleashing the Beast
9. Hot men and “Funeral Blues”
10. If you all knew, why the hell didn’t you tell me?
11. Men, mothers and bedsheets
12. Looking for stargates
13. I think I have AIDS!
14. Romancing Rudy
15. Let the break-ups begin
16. Revving the Beast
17. Grandmotherly wisdom
18. The Geek meets the Queen
19. Time to grow up
20. Discovering love on the back of a trailer
21. My glorious slutty phase
22. Coach Nina holds my hand
23. Nice, but not deserving
24. Please buy me the PlayStation
25. Launching at forty
26. Crawling over the finish line
27. Father and son double act
28. Will the real Robert stand up
29. Where is my fairytale ending?
Acknowledgements