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A Son of War

Melvyn Bragg

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#5348 of 8,085 books · #831 in Historical Fiction

Longlisted for the Booker Prize (2001).

The second volume of a trilogy that began with The Soldier's Return. After the upheavals of the Second World War, the Richardson family -- Sam, Ellen and their young son Joe -- settle back to working-class life in the Cumbrian town of Wigton. Yet for them, as for so many, life will never be the same again. As the old order begins to be challenged and new vistas open, Sam and Ellen forge their future together with differing needs and desires - and conflicting expectations of Joe, who grows up with his own demons to confront.

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Publisher
Sceptre
ISBN-13
9781611459548
Topics
Family life after warWorking-class BritainComing of age

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