My friend Michael Hession, who has died aged 85 of cancer, wrote a short biographical account in 2023 called A Sort of Life. He said that he had never aspired to be a Renaissance man, but he had been an individual of many parts: medical and political activist, publisher, photographer, light aircraft pilot, skier, cellist, farmer, concert promoter and more.
The title was a homage to the novelist Graham Greene, who used it to describe his painful, traumatic childhood. Michael’s anger and hurt at his own childhood remained with him throughout his life.
