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Back in the Day - Melvyn Bragg's deeply affecting, first ever memoir (Hardcover)
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Back in the Day - Melvyn Bragg's deeply affecting, first ever memoir (Hardcover)
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'The best thing he's ever written . . . I loved it' Observer Melvyn
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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