The Undertow Author:Jo Baker This is the story of the Hastings family?their secrets, their loves and losses, dreams and heartbreaks?captured 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?H... more »is 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.« less