Back in the Day
ISBN: 9781529394498
Author : Melvyn Bragg
Published: 2023
Publisher: Sceptre
Number of pages: 416
Language: English
Format: Paperback / softback
Format: 196×128
Author : Melvyn Bragg
Published: 2023
Publisher: Sceptre
Number of pages: 416
Language: English
Format: Paperback / softback
Format: 196×128
Description
Melvyn Bragg's first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which lyrically evokes a vanished world.'The best thing he's ever written . . . I loved it'Observer'A memoir bursting with affection'Sunday Times In this elegiac and heartfelt memoir, Melvyn Bragg recreates his youth in the Cumbrian market town of Wigton: a working-class boy who expected to leave school at fifteen yet who gained a scholarship to Oxford University; who happily roamed the streets and raided orchards with his gang of friends until a breakdown in adolescence drove him to find refuge in books.Vividly evoking the post-war era, Bragg draws an indelible portrait of all that formed him: a community-spirited northern town, still steeped in the old ways; the Lake District landscapes that inspired him; and the many remarkable people in his close-knit world.'A moving portrait of a lost England . . . remarkable'Daily Telegraph
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