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Language 1529394457 
Back in the day : a memoir. 
Publication year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Classification: 920.BRA
Publisher: London : Sceptre, 2022.
ISBN: 9781529394450 (hbk.) : 25.00
Notes:
Illustrations on lining papers.
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.
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408 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
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Very sensitive account of his youth spent in the class conscious Cumbrian community of Wigton.Describes relationships with parents,family and friends and at the end his dilemna whether to take up his university scholarship-thank goodness he did!
29/12/22
West Sussex
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