{"product_id":"9781529394498","title":"Back in the Day : The deeply affecting, first ever memoir by beloved national treasure Melvyn Bragg","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Bragg, Melvyn\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutobiography: literary\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 2 March 2023 by Hodder \u0026amp; Stoughton (Sceptre) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 416 pages\u003cbr\u003e128 x 198 x 29 | 294g\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":"Bragg, Melvyn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53524619919544,"sku":"9781529394498","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781529394498.jpg?v=1780059431","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781529394498","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}