![]() The epigraph might suggest a book somewhat heavy in life, but a book capturing the life and times of Teddy Todd should be. All this is served with a sparkle of humour that only exemplifies the emotional nuance Kate Atkinson has created. ![]() A God in Ruins is the story of a life built on fate, fiction, courage, and ruin. ![]() Finally, a passage from Scouting for Boys, describing King George and the Dragon how one should face danger no matter how ill-equipped or terrified. Ralph Waldo Emerson, writing in Nature: ‘a man is a god in ruins…' Sylvie Beresford Todd, mother of the novel's main protagonist Teddy Todd: ‘the purpose of Art is to convey the truth of a thing, not to be the truth itself'. A God in Ruins, the most recent triumph from Kate Atkinson, opens with three prescient passages. ![]()
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