Chapter One. A Fine Thing: A History of Chance -- Chapter Two. S̀wear to tell me everything that goes wrong': Henry Green and Free Will in the Novel -- Chapter Three. Ì admire the will to welcome everything - the stupid violence of chance': Samuel Beckett and the Representation of Possibility -- Chapter Four. L̀et's Celebrate the Accidental': B.S. Johnson, the Aleatory and the Radical Generation -- Chapter Five. T̀he incomprehensible operation of grace': Mess, Contingency and the Example of Iris Murdoch.