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the soldier's return
[Paperback - 2000]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Sceptre Uk | ISBN: 9780340751015 | Pages: 384
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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 bonds of loyalty and love are stretched to breaking point in this taut, and profoundly moving novel. An outstandingly good novel...utterly credible, utterly compelling, and very enjoyable Allan Massie, Scotsman Deeply felt, beautifully realised John Sutherland, Sunday Times The 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 Standard Sympathetic, touching, infinitely believable...This is a highly accomplished novel D.J. Taylor, Literary Review

Melvyn Bragg is a writer and broadcaster whose first novel, For Want of a Nail, was published in 1965. His novels since include The Maid of Buttermere, The Soldier s Return, A Son of War, Credo and Now is the Time, which won the Parliamentary Book Award for fiction in 2016. His books have also been awarded the Time/Life Silver Pen Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the WHSmith Literary Award, and have been longlisted three times for the Booker Prize (including the Lost Man Booker Prize). He has also written several works of non-fiction, including The Adventure of English and The Book of Books about the King James Bible. He lives in London and Cumbria.

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