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

Places: Great Britain

Times: 20th century