A Place in England

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Set in the years before and during World War II, this is the invigorating and exciting story of John Tallentire's (Leo of The Hired Man) son, who inherits his father's determination to gain a position of some independence. That independence, however, is somewhat hard won and bitterly kept; and the struggle for its achievement makes Joseph Tallentire one of the most interesting characters to appear in a modern British novel.

Melvyn Bragg is the author of sixteen novels including the bestselling Credo and The Maid of Buttermere, and of several works of non-fiction including Speak for England, an oral history of the twentieth century, and Rich, a biography of Richard Burton. He was born in 1939 and educated at Wigton's Nelson Tomlinson Shool and at Oxford where he read history. He is controller of Arts at LWT and President of the National Campaign for the Arts, and in 1998 he was made a life peer. He lives in London and Cumbria.

'A graceful and confident writer; the little Cumberland town of Thurston during the slump years, the Second World War and after, is beautifully realised' -- The Observer 'Quite masterly' -- Daily Telegraph 'Places him solidly in the main tradition of English fiction, with an honourable ancestry through such disparate figures as Wells and Hardy, Dickens and Jane Austen to Henry Fielding' -- Tribune