This third volume of Patricia Craig¿s trilogy or memoir ¿ following her celebrated Asking for Trouble and A Twisted Root: Ancestral Entanglements in Ireland ¿ takes its title from Louis MacNeice: ¿My diehard countrymen like drayhorses/drag their ruin behind them¿. A memoir of her upbringing in Belfast and life in London, from the 1960s onwards ¿ but with scenes from childhood, adolescence, and later. The atmosphere of London is contrasted with that of Belfast.