{"product_id":"9781529394498","title":"Back in the Day : The deeply affecting, first ever memoir by beloved national treasure Melvyn Bragg","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Bragg, Melvyn \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 02\/03\/2023,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 416 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781529394498,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMelvyn Bragg's first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which lyrically evokes a vanished world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The best thing he's ever written . . . I loved it'Observer'A memoir bursting with affection'Sunday Times  In 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A  moving portrait of a lost England . . . remarkable'Daily Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40956651307052,"sku":"9781529394498","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781529394498.jpg?v=1759665439","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781529394498","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}