An accidental life (by Titia Sutherland)

(Amazon UK link) I’ve been rereading my collection of novels by Titia Sutherland which were published in the 1990s over the past six months or so. It’s nearly two decades since I last read ‘An accidental life’, so - unsurprisingly - I had entirely forgotten what it was about. As I’ve liked the other books by this author very much, I was looking forward to read it.
However it has a most depressing opening chapter. Some men have been out hunting - and I have never begun to understand the appeal of t...