# Josh Lawton

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- Book: [Josh Lawton](https://www.bookquiver.com/melvyn-bragg/josh-lawton) ([Josh Lawton.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/melvyn-bragg/josh-lawton.md))
- Authors: [Melvyn Bragg](https://www.bookquiver.com/melvyn-bragg)
- Publisher: sceptre
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-13-9970-442-7
- Published: 2022-04-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'Brilliant' Daily Telegraph 'The book is exciting . . . a pleasure to be remembered' Financial Times At once a love story and a portrayal of innocence brutally curtailed, Josh Lawton charts the rites of passage of a young Cumbrian farm worker and keen fell runner - an exceptionally good man whose very integrity proves his undoing. 'With this novel, Melvyn Bragg has established his place in English letters to the extent that his Cumbria is as potent a literary region as Hardy's Wessex, Lawrence's Midlands and Housman's Shropshire' New Statesman