Why keep searching when it looks as though you have it all? Aren't love, security and status sufficient?

Glin Bennet describes his life and career as a sequence of unexpected happenings, where each arrival has been a fresh point of departure.

He worked for years with some success to connect his early work in surgery with his career in psychiatry – trying to convince doctors, especially, that there was more to illness than the physical experience.

Rather harder was accommodating his drive for personal fulfilment with the demands of the daily round, and that led to conflict, to a deeper exploration of his own profession and the pervasive power of doctors, the value of loss, and the nature of the 'wound' - the turning point for so many people.

This trilogy opened with fathers, and at the end there are stories by other sons about their fathers. Do fathers ever get it right? Glin Bennet traces his own progress, personal and professional, right up to an imaginary ending, and the final conclusions - if there ever can be any.