A01=Melvyn Bragg
Author_Melvyn Bragg
battle of the sexes
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historical novels set in cumbria
historical novels set in england
love story
novels with women protagonists
relationships
romance novel
sexuality
Product details
- ISBN 9780340553480
- Weight: 300g
- Dimensions: 128 x 194mm
- Publication Date: 05 Dec 1991
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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'Rosemary is an outstanding creation'
Sunday Telegraph
'Bragg writes with a timelessness'
Financial Times
Half-French and with an agile, inquiring mind, Rosemary Lewis cannot help being out of the ordinary in Thurston, the Cumbrian market town where she grows up between the wars. An early, bruising failure in love drives her inwards to the solace of books until she meets Edgar - vigorous, down to earth and determined to win her. Charting their life together, this powerful novel probes with exceptional acuity the heights and tortured depths of a bond that becomes a shackle.
Melvyn Bragg was born in Wigton, Cumbria, in 1939. He went to the local Grammar School and then to Wadham College, Oxford. He joined the BBC in 1961, and published his first novel, For Want of a Nail, in 1965.
He left the BBC and continued to write novels which include The Soldier's Return (WH Smith Literary Award), Without a City Wall (Mail on Sunday John Llewellyn Rhys Prize) and Now Is the Time (Parliamentary Book Award 2016). A Place in England, Son of War and Crossing the Lines were all nominated for the Booker Prize. His non-fiction includes The Adventure of English and The Book of Books, and his first memoir, Back in the Day, was published in 2022 to critical acclaim.
He edited and presented The South Bank Show from 1977 and hosted the BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time from 1998. He has now retired from both. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society and of The British Academy. He was given a Peerage in 1998 and a Companion of Honour in 2017.
