Crossing The Lines - Hardcover

Bragg, Melvyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1559707380 ISBN 13: 9781559707381

Publisher: Arcade Pub, 2005

Synopsis

A series of people find their fates intertwined when they cross boundaries in their lives, from a teenager's seduction by the outside world, to his romance with a girl whose life is precariously balanced, to the struggles of his middle-aged parents. By the author of The Soldier's Return.

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Review:

I was bowled over by it ... an enormously important piece of literature about post-war Britain. (A.C. Grayling, Guardian)

Enthralling, a joy to read ... immensely satisfying, written with honesty and imagination ... [it] enriches the reader's life. (Allan Massie, Scotsman)

Bragg brilliantly conveys Joe's youthful idealism and the ultimate dislocation from family and community that will be experienced by the working-class lad (or lass) who manages to win a university education ... I, frankly, can't wait to read what happens next. (Val Hennessy, Daily Mail)

An expertly told tale which is satisfying in its own right and as a continuation of a monumental series. (Frank Egerton, The Times)

Richly detailed and extraordinarily poignant ... Melvyn Bragg is slowly cementing his place among the aristocrats of English fiction. (David Robson, Sunday Telegraph)

Sharp yet tender, it is an astonishingly confident, slowly unreeled account (Rosemary Goring, Glasgow Herald)

Book Description:

The much-praised third part of 'a monumental series' (Sunday Times) by an 'aristocrat of English fiction' (Sunday Telegraph)

About this edition

• Publisher: Arcade Pub
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1559707380
• ISBN 13: 9781559707381
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 490