Back in the Day
ISBN: 9781529394450
Author : Melvyn Bragg
Published: 2022
Publisher: Sceptre
Number of pages: 416
Language: English
Format: Hardback
Format: 238×160
Author : Melvyn Bragg
Published: 2022
Publisher: Sceptre
Number of pages: 416
Language: English
Format: Hardback
Format: 238×160
Description
'The best thing he's ever written . . . I loved it' ObserverMelvyn Bragg's first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which lyrically evokes a vanished world.In this captivating memoir, Melvyn Bragg recalls growing up in the Cumbrian market town of Wigton, from his early childhood during the war to the moment he had to decide between staying on or spreading his wings. This is the tale of a boy who lived in a pub and expected to leave school at fifteen yet won a scholarship to Oxford. Derailed by a severe breakdown when he was thirteen, he developed a passion for reading and study - though that didn't stop him playing in a skiffle band or falling in love. It is equally the tale of the people and place that formed him. Bragg indelibly portrays his parents and local characters from pub regulars to vicars, teachers and hardmen, and vividly captures the community-spirited northern town - steeped in the old ways but on the cusp of post-war change. A poignant elegy to a vanished era as well as the glories of the Lake District, it illuminates what made him the writer, broadcaster and champion of the arts he is today.'A memoir bursting with affection . . . fascinating' Sunday Times
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