This period piece has its beginnings in the early 1960s, opens with a description of the motorbike/coffee bar culture then prevalent. From those motorbike days in that nameless town in southern England our narrator, the Chicken Farmer to be, takes his group of friends on through the next twenty plus years.

Giving instances from the ordinary lives happening around him the Chicken Farmer discourses on, not only Love and its many betrayals, but on most other aspects of life. Told from a young[ish] male perspective, it is yet generally sympathetic to the human condition both male and female.

Although the narrator largely remains in the one place not all that he relates happens in and around the one town, characters come and go, bringing their stories from near and far. Allowing the Chicken Farmer to have Thoughts on – as well as Love (and these are just a few of the chapter headings) – Flat Places, Resurrection, Hopeless Aspirations, Becoming a Cripple, Romantic Illusions, Incest, Suicide, Murder, Hunting, Friendship... and the possibility of Happy Endings.