![]() ![]() He served as a bomber pilot, leading risky raids in his rickety Halifax bomber over Germany. The great event in Teddy’s life, as for so many fictional characters and, who knows, maybe even real people, was WWII. ![]() Recently I spent a weekend with it, engrossed happily enough, but already the book is fading for me, and I’m doubtful it will linger for me the way its successor did. When I heard that Atkinson would be revisiting the Todd family, focusing this time on a younger brother, Teddy, I found myself looking forward to the book with an enthusiasm that surprised me. I had reservations about the book, but I liked the way it valued sibling relationships over romantic ones. That novel focused on Ursula Todd, who died many deaths navigating the perils of the twentieth century. In A God in Ruins Kate Atkinson returns to some of the characters she wrote about in Life after Life (2013). ![]()
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