{"product_id":"back-in-the-day-melvyn-bragg-9781529394498","title":"Back in the Day: Melvyn Bragg's Deeply Affecting, First Ever Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMelvyn Bragg's first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which vividly evokes a vanished world.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The best thing he's ever written . . . What a world he captures here. You can almost smell it' Rachel Cooke, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Wonderfully rich, endearing and unusual . . . a balanced, honest picture' Richard Benson, \u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVividly 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A charming account of a lost era, full of details and often lyrical descriptions of people and places . . . fascinating and often moving' Christina Patterson, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Melvyn Bragg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 152939449X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781529394498\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sceptre\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/18\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.17w x 1.03d","brand":"Melvyn Bragg","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44074551640319,"sku":"9781529394498","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_96cd3714-c292-4078-b644-999b71e0e92d.jpg?v=1685454406","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/back-in-the-day-melvyn-bragg-9781529394498","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}