The Undertow

This is the story of the Hastings family��heir secrets, their loves and losses, dreams and heartbreaks��aptured in a seamless series of individual moments that span the years between the first World War and the present. The novel opens in 1914 as William, a young factory worker, spends one last evening at home before his departure for the navy�劣is son Billy grows into a champion cyclist and will ride into the D��ay landings on a military bicycle�劣is son, in turn, Will, struggles with a debilitating handicap to become an Oxford professor in the 1960s�再nd finally, young Billie Hastings makes a life for herself as an artist in contemporary London.