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Back in the Day : The deeply affecting, first ever memoir by beloved national treasure Melvyn Bragg - Melvyn Bragg

Back in the Day

The deeply affecting, first ever memoir by beloved national treasure Melvyn Bragg

By: Melvyn Bragg

eBook | 26 May 2022

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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'
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