The Soldier's Return
'His masterpiece' - Sunday Times
$29.54
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
4 August 2000
Summary
Unsentimental, truthful and wonderful. — Beryl Bainbridge, Independent Books of the Year
When Sam Richardson returns in 1946 from the Forgotten War in Burma to Wigton in Cumbria, he finds the town little changed. But the war has changed him, broadening his horizons as well as leaving him with traumatic memories. In addition, his six-year-old son now barely remembers him, and his wife has gained a sense of independence from her wartime jobs. As all three strive to adjust, the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780340751015 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0340751010 |
| Author: | Melvyn Bragg |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Sceptre |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 4 August 2000 |
| Weight: | 310g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 26mm |
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Critics Review
Unsentimental, truthful and wonderful - Beryl Bainbridge, Sunday Times Books of the Year
Outstandingly good … utterly credible, utterly compelling, and very enjoyable - Allan Massie, ScotsmanSympathetic, touching, infinitely believable … a highly accomplished novel - D.J. Taylor, Literary ReviewThe first Great War came alive in Faulks’s Birdsong; the second Great War, and in particular the Burma campaign, comes very much alive in Melvyn Bragg’s THE SOLDIER’S RETURN … wholly absorbing - John Bayley, Evening StandardDeeply felt, beautifully realised - John Bayley, Evening StandardAbout The Author
Melvyn Bragg
Melvyn Bragg’s first novel, FOR WANT OF A NAIL, was published in 1965 and since then his novels have included 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, which won the WHSmith Literary Award, and A SON OF WAR and CROSSING THE LINES, both of which were longlisted for the Booker Prize. He has also written several works of non-fiction including THE ADVENTURE OF ENGLISH and 12 BOOKS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD.
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