Back In The Day Av Melvyn Bragg

<P><B>Melvyn Bragg''s first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which vividly evokes a vanished world.</B><br><br><B>''The best thing he''s ever written . . . What a world he captures here. You can almost smell it'' Rachel Cooke, <I>Observer</I></B><br><br><B>''Wonderfully rich, endearing and unusual . . . a balanced, honest picture'' Richard Benson, <I>Mail on Sunday</I></B><br><br>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.<br><br>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 inspire

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