Ben Robson is a self-reliant, socially mobile, boomer. He began life when food was rationed and advanced to Grammar School where bullying was common, his sister had to be protected from assault, and the headteacher punished male pupils with a tawse. Work on a family farm makes him familiar with birth, blood, sex, and death. Always contrary he watches 1968's anti-Vietnam war demonstration from inside the American Embassy, hunts foxes,...