Back in the day : a memoir /
by Bragg, Melvyn.
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BookPublisher: London : Sceptre, 2022Description: 408 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781529394450 (hbk.) :; 1529394457 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 920 BRASubject(s): Bragg, Melvyn, 1939- | Broadcasters -- Great Britain -- Biography | Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography | Biography | Biography | Biography & non-fiction prose | Autobiography: literary | Memoirs | Rural communities | England, Northern -- Social conditions -- 20th centurySummary: 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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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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