The Silken Net by Melvyn Bragg

The Silken Net by Melvyn Bragg

'Rosemary is an outstanding creation'
Sunday Telegraph

'Bragg writes with a timelessness'
Financial Times

Half-French and with an agile, inquiring mind, Rosemary Lewis cannot help being out of the ordinary in Thurston, the Cumbrian market town where she grows up between the wars. An early, bruising failure in love drives her inwards to the solace of books until she meets Edgar - vigorous, down to earth and determined to win her. Charting their life together, this powerful novel probes with exceptional acuity the heights and tortured depths of a bond that becomes a shackle.

Rosemary is an outstanding creation

* Sunday Telegraph *
A vigorous but never crude study of female sexuality, it is distinguished by passages of prose which have precisely the sort of leaping life that Lawrence held up before himself as an ideal all through his career * Guardian *
Rosemary is drawn with great sympathy and warmth . . . Melvyn Bragg writes with a timelessness that suits his heroine and his theme, that is in tune with the whole story * Financial Times *

Words could be used linking Melvyn Bragg with Hardy, Lawrence and Bennett in the Grand Chain: that he belongs there is indisputable

* New Statesman *
Most attractive of all is this book's openness, its serious intention and a certain ingenuousness in the way it treats its themes. * Sunday Times *

A strong and solid novel, with a totally convincing figure, at once fallible and admirable, at its centre

* Sunday Telegraph *

It is an extraordinary analysis of the battle between the sexes, and is compelling reading

* Cosmopolitan *

Rosemary is utterly convincing throughout . . . a character real enough to behave out of character at times and shock the reader as much as she both dismays and excites her husband.

* Listener *

Melvyn Bragg was born in Wigton, Cumbria, in 1939. He went to the local Grammar School and then to Wadham College, Oxford. He joined the BBC in 1961, and published his first novel, For Want of a Nail, in 1965. He left the BBC and continued to write novels which include The Soldier's Return (WH Smith Literary Award), Without a City Wall (Mail on Sunday John Llewellyn Rhys Prize) and Now Is the Time (Parliamentary Book Award 2016). A Place in England, Son of War and Crossing the Lines were all nominated for the Booker Prize. His non-fiction includes The Adventure of English and The Book of Books, and his first memoir, Back in the Day, was published in 2022 to critical acclaim. He edited and presented The South Bank Show from 1977 and hosted the BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time from 1998. He has now retired from both. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society and of The British Academy. He was given a Peerage in 1998 and a Companion of Honour in 2017.

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ISBN 13	9780340553480
ISBN 10	0340553480
Title	The Silken Net
Author	Melvyn Bragg
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Hodder & Stoughton
Year published	1991-12-05
Number of pages	432
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