Spoils of War

The author of Loose Ends and Moonchildren dramatises the desperate attempts of a sixteen year-old boy to reconcile his divorced parents, a somber chronicle about disillusionment and about people whose hopes and dreams never quite live up to reality

The fuzzy decade of the fifties is explored through the eyes of Martin's parents. His mother, still a bohemian and a rebel without a cause, and his father who has dropped back into the system and accepts life as it is

Martin is caught between these two outlooks, unable to bring his parents back together, and wonderin what route his own life will take

"Mr Weller finds in one family's disintergration a paradigm of the postwar collapse of liberal idealism" - New York Times