Title: A god in ruins
Description: Ursula Todd's brother Teddy is an old man trying to come to grips with his post-War life and with a modern world and family. Switching back and forth in time between memories of his childhood and his present, Teddy is an oblivious husband, a rueful father. He never quite got over the War and part of him never adjusted to having a future. Would-be poet, heroic pilot, husband, father, and grandfather, Teddy navigates the perils and progress of a rapidly changing world; his greatest challenge is living in a future he never expected to have. --
Subjects: Veteran reintegration, World War, 1939-1945, Social distance, History, Veterans, War, Fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, sagas, Great britain, fiction, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2015-05-24, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, historical, general, Psychological aspects
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 20th century