IN the midst of a noisy party celebrating his 50th birthday at the back garden of his home, Mike Frame found himself catapulted into the past. Decades earlier, in the late 1960s, he was Chris Carver, a young activist demonstrating against the Vietnam War and in love with Anna Addison, a fellow activist burning with the same ideals.

Decades later—with a new name lifted from a tombstone—Carver turned into Mike Frame, husband of Miranda Martin