A Place in England

A Place in England

by Melvyn Bragg (Author), Melvyn Bragg (Author), Melvyn Bragg (Author)

Synopsis

Joseph Tallantire has hope and ambition - like his father before him he is determined to make something of himself and improve his lot. But life is not easy for an uneducated young man in Cumberland before and during World War II, and Joseph's struggle against the odds is the subject of this moving and evocative novel. Suffering hardship and humiliation but eventually achieving a position of some independence, Joseph serves as a tribute to the many like him who lived through one of Britain's periods of greatest social change.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Sceptre
Published: 06 Dec 2001

ISBN 10: 0340770929
ISBN 13: 9780340770924
Book Overview: The second novel in Melvyn Bragg's brilliant and evocative Tallentire trilogy

Media Reviews
A graceful and confident writer; the little Cumberland town of Thurston during the slump years, the Second World War and after, is beautifully realised * The Observer *
Quite masterly * Daily Telegraph *
Places him solidly in the main tradition of English fiction, with an honourable ancestry through such disparate figures as Wells and Hardy, Dickens and Jane Austen to Henry Fielding * Tribune *
Author Bio
Melvyn Bragg is a writer and broadcaster. His novels include The Hired Man, for which he won the Time/Life Silver Pen Award, Without a City Wall, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, The Soldier's Return, winner of the WHSmith Literary Award, A Son of War and Crossing the Lines, both of which were longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, A Place in England, which was longlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize, and most recently Grace and Mary. He has also written several works of non-fiction, including The Book of Books about the King James Bible. He lives in London and Cumbria.