Motion Papers. Vols. l-lii. 3 Notebooks comprising the first autograph draft of the novel, with the working title Sister Boddy's Hot Spoon, later published as The Pale Companion; 1987–1988. Autograph. Three volumes.
Motion Papers. Vols. l-lvii. The Pale Companion; [c.1988-1989?], n.d. Autograph and typewritten. Motion planned to write a sequence of ten novels, treating the developing life story of the principal protagonist, Francis Mayne, from the summer of 1968 onwards. This idea was modelled in part on Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time and its working title was Opera. However, only the first two novels, The Pale Companion (Viking, 1989) and Famous for the Creatures (Viking, 1991) wer...
Motion Papers. Vols. liii-liv. Two notebooks comprising the second autograph draft of Sister Boddy's Hot Spoon (published as The Pale Companion); May – August 1988. Autograph. Two volumes.