Quentin Barry had always wished that he had been called Sean or Brian. It was hard to be called Quentin at a Christian Brothers school in the 1970s. But that was the name they had wanted, his beautiful mother Sara Barry had wanted, she who had always lived in a dream world far more elegant that the one she really lived in.

Steve went on to become New Zealand's first professional multisporter, eking out a precarious existence at home and mostly unable to raise the sponsorship to contest the more lucrative international races.

Everybody fools somebody sometime — one way or another. But Abraham Lincoln said no one could fool all of the people all of the time. Well, I can. I can fool you even wearing a moo-moo.

David Astle (2012) Puzzled: Secrets and clues from a life in words, →ISBN: “The home was in Leatherhead, which Ximeneans would despise as a signal for L, but let's keep with the action.”