Adventure, intrigue, and a dog named Ted A daring escape across water, wartime service on convoys, a glittering career in professional sport, the larger-than-life central character is marked, sadly, not by his successes but by his failures; a lack of empathy with his fellow man. Was any form of reconciliation possible after injuring the family’s beloved pet? And could he ever lay to rest the grief he still felt for his deceased father. Maybe it was his inability to look beyond his self-centred world that was a portent of the family discord that was to come.