{"product_id":"books-back-in-the-day-by-melvyn-bragg","title":"Back in the Day","description":"Melvyn Bragg's first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which lyrically evokes a vanished world.  '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.  Vividly 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.  'A  moving portrait of a lost England . . . remarkable' Daily Telegraph","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53669920801041,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781529394498.jpg?v=1781510377","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-back-in-the-day-by-melvyn-bragg","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}