Doing the Heart Good

"Marks the end of a seventy-year-old man's independent life. Alistair Mackenzie, widower, father, grandfather, retired professor, lover of Dickens and good sherry is forced to move in with his daughter and her family, bringing with him only a few medals, pajamas that still bear the smell of smoke, and memory, that territory, alien and untrustworthy, unfailingly inhabited by a familiar stranger."--Jacket.