Synopsis
Longlisted for the Booker Prize After the upheavals of the Second World War, the Richardson family - Sam, Ellen and their young son Joe - settle back to working-class life in the Cumbrian town of Wigton. Yet for them, as for so many, life will never be the same again. As the old order begins to be challenged and new vistas open, Sam and Ellen forge their future together with differing needs and desires - and conflicting expectations of Joe, who grows up with his own demons to confront.
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About the Author
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.
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"'Have you got a penny mister?' By now there was an awful turmoil inside him. He could not be seen crying, but he badly wanted to cry. SNOW WHITE would start....soon." Joe needed another penny to buy his movie ticket. So don't be fooled as I was by the martial title of this novel. This is a coming- of-age novel, too precious for some. Mark McGann presents the voices of children, full of hope, innocence, and longing. He also renders the women and men in the pubs. There are betrayals and disappointments in working-class England after the war. Some dreams are realized, others not. More tears are spilled than blood. B.H.C. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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