The Undertow

"A novel about four generations of a British family--their secrets, their loves and losses, dreams and heartbreaks--captured in a series of individual moments that span the years from World War I, to World War II, to the 1960s, and up to the present."@en
"A novel about four generations of a British family--their secrets, their loves and losses, dreams and heartbreaks--captured in a series of individual moments that span the years from World War I, to World War II, to the 1960s, and up to the present."
"This is the story of the Hastings family opens in 1914 as William, a young factory worker, spends one last evening at home before his departure for the navy. His son Billy grows into a champion cyclist and will ride into the D-Day landings on a military bicycle. His son, in turn, Will, struggles with a debilitating handicap to become an Oxford professor in the 1960s. And finally, young Billie Hastings makes a life for herself as an artist in contemporary London."