About the book: 1973 / On this April morning, as every day since he retired from a lifetime of working on the British railways, Henry Radstock put on a red tracksuit and walked briskly to Wilton Park, the gate of which was some hundred meters from his house on Balbridge Road. He managed to purchase this home after forty years of strict cost savings. After an hour's walk in the park, he concluded that the few grams of weight he had lost allowed him to now begin a hearty breakfast of porridge, eggs, sausage and jam..