Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

This is one of my favourite Sayers novels.... It is set in London, a few years after the war. Sayers knew Bloomsbury well. She kept a flat there all her life. In this book, she writes about soldiers who have been traumatised by their War experiences. Women writers, painters and other artists lived in Bloomsbury, as it was central but inexpensive. THey could now leave home and lead more independent lives. Living away from home also gave women a chance to be more sexually free, and there was fairly reliable contraception.. which also added to their liberties. The book starts in the Bellona Club, a club largely patronised by military officers, on Armistice Night. The country had a 2 minute silence to remember the War dead. Wimsey is there as he is meeting the father of his friend, who was killed in the War. While there, he meets another friend, George Fentiman, who was badly shell shocked and is now unable to hold down a job. George's elderly grandfather is there also, dozing in his chair. He is a General, very frail, and he lives alone... so he spends most of his time, reading at the club. George and Wimsey talk, and George reflects that the old man was in the Crimean war and has no idea of the horrors of modern warfare.. He also has an older brother, Robert, a career military man, who is unimaginative and "had a good War". He and his wife Sheila are badly off, because George cannot hold down a steady job. Then, one of the members goes to speak to the General, and finds that he is dead.