{"product_id":"9781529394498","title":"Back in the Day","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMelvyn Bragg''s first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which vividly evokes a vanished world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''The best thing he''s ever written . . . What a world he captures here. You can almost smell it'' Rachel Cooke, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Wonderfully rich, endearing and unusual . . . a balanced, honest picture'' Richard Benson, \u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVividly 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A charming account of a lost era, full of details and often lyrical descriptions of people and places . . . fascinating and often moving''  Christina Patterson, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43128643092658,"sku":"9781529394498","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781529394498.jpg?v=1786023040","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781529394498","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}