# The North of England Home Service

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- Book: [The North of England Home Service](https://www.bookquiver.com/gordon-burn/the-north-of-england-home-service) ([The North of England Home Service.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/gordon-burn/the-north-of-england-home-service.md))
- Authors: [Gordon Burn](https://www.bookquiver.com/gordon-burn)
- Publisher: Faber AND Faber
- ISBN: 978-05-7135-366-8
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2020-10-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

‘Extraordinary, funny, tender, poetic . . . The story that emerges is Britain’s.’ Times Literary SupplementWith a new introduction by George Shaw In a forensic dissection of Britain’s souring landscape Gordon Burn tells the tale of Ray Cruddas, a light entertainer effecting a semi-dignified retreat from a fading career, who returns to the unnamed northern town of his youth.