Son Of War

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Longlisted for the Booker Prize Deeply humane & acutely truthful Peter Kemp Sunday Times After the upheavals of the Second World War the Richardson family -- Sam Ellen & 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 & new vistas open Sam & Ellen forge their future together with differing needs & desires
- & conflicting expectations of Joe who grows up with his own demons to confront. It is as if these were the novels he was always waiting to write... He catches brilliantly the volatility of emotions -- how happiness can curdle anger flare guilt build into terrror. Nicci Gerrard Observer A novel about being alive the kind of slice-of-life novel that everyone feels they have inside them but few could write Brandon Robshaw Independent on Sunday This sequel to The Soldiers Return -- widely acclaimed as Melvyn Braggs best novel -- is every bit as convincing & enjoyable.. . This seems likely to become not only an outstandingly good series but one of the finest & most authentic records of the changes in English society life & manners since the Second World War Allan Massie Scotsman Shot through with blazing integrity & authenticity Val Hennessy Daily Mail