Crossing the Lines
From a Man Booker Prize nominee comes this “extraordinarily poignant” novel of growing up in post-WWII England from the author of The Soldier’s Return (The Sunday Telegraph).
Set in the 1950s, this absorbing novel follows young Joe Richardson, the son of a British World War II veteran, as he makes his way to Oxford and embarks upon life in midcentury England. A story not only of one family but of the profound changes taking place at the time—in morals, religion, music, and social class—Crossing the Lines has become a contemporary classic.
Following The Soldier’s Return, heralded as “a novel written in fine steel sentences and granite paragraphs” by the Washington Post, and the equally brilliant A Son of War, Melvyn Bragg continues “one of the finest sagas of postwar Britain” (The Sunday Telegraph).
“A compassionate, clear-sighted writer. Bragg’s work has been compared to that of Hardy and D.H. Lawrence, not without some justice.” —Publishers Weekly
Set in the 1950s, this absorbing novel follows young Joe Richardson, the son of a British World War II veteran, as he makes his way to Oxford and embarks upon life in midcentury England. A story not only of one family but of the profound changes taking place at the time—in morals, religion, music, and social class—Crossing the Lines has become a contemporary classic.
Following The Soldier’s Return, heralded as “a novel written in fine steel sentences and granite paragraphs” by the Washington Post, and the equally brilliant A Son of War, Melvyn Bragg continues “one of the finest sagas of postwar Britain” (The Sunday Telegraph).
“A compassionate, clear-sighted writer. Bragg’s work has been compared to that of Hardy and D.H. Lawrence, not without some justice.” —Publishers Weekly
