What is the author's style in J.M. Barrie & the Lost Boys by Andrew Birkin?

"JM Barrie and the Lost Boys" by Andrew Birkin is a work of nonfiction. The book is comprised of 299 pages broken down into 16 chapters plus a prologue and an epilogue. Birkin also includes extensive source notes and an index. The shortest chapter is 13 pages in length; the longest chapter is 30 pages in length. The prologue is two pages in length and the epilogue is two pages in length. The average length of the chapters is 19 pages.

Birkin starts out with the family tree of the du Maurier and the Llewelyn Davies families. This is an important inclusion because of the five Llewelyn Davies boys, George, Jack, Michael, Peter and Nico, who would become the inspiration for Peter pan and the lost boys.

Included through out the book are extensive amounts of photographs taken from Barrie's own collection as well as that of Nico Llewellyn Davies and other sources. Most of the photos are of the Llewellyn Davies children, along with important places and scenes from a day in the life of the main characters. Birkin also includes replica of playbills, handwritten letters and other documents, some of which are no longer in existence.