Our Time Is Gone: A Novel

War has come to England, and the Furys soldier on

Desmond Fury calls himself a working man, but it has been years since he put in a full shift. A brutally arrogant union leader, he longs to escape the working class and sees World War II as his ticket to better things. He is at a banquet for war recruiters, savoring the atmosphere of refinement, when a call comes from the hospital that drags him right back into the mud.

His mother, the indomitable Mrs. Fury, has collapsed. After years ...