# Back in the Day

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- Book: [Back in the Day](https://www.bookquiver.com/melvyn-bragg/back-in-the-day) ([Back in the Day.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/melvyn-bragg/back-in-the-day.md))
- Authors: [Melvyn Bragg](https://www.bookquiver.com/melvyn-bragg)
- Publisher: sceptre
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-15-2939-447-4
- Published: 2022-05-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## 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