My dad says that every day brings something different and every year's new. He said sometimes life slaps you down but you gotta get up and slap it back. Digger is keeping a diary about the things that matter to him: piffing yonnies at the meatworks fishing with his cousins and brawling with the school bully. But it's 1967 and bigger things keep getting in the way. Digger is finding out who he is what he believes and what's worth fighting for. A moving and often funny novel from acclaimed musician filmmaker and playwright Richard J. Frankland.