Towards Mellbreak **SIGNED**LOCATED**DATED**

Marie-Elsa Bragg

ISBN 10: 1784741337 / ISBN 13: 9781784741334

Published by Chatto & Windus, LONDON, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Towards Mellbreak **SIGNED**LOCATED**DATED**
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus, LONDON
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784741337
• ISBN 13: 9781784741334
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First UK edition/First Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed and Dated By Author

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Synopsis

*Shortlisted for the Writers' Guild Best First Novel Award*
**Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in the New Statesman**

After many generations, it is now, in 1971, Harold who runs Ard Farm. Out on the fells, he feels his father’s presence, and there is hope that he, his grandmother and his Uncle Joe will be able to take the farm forward and prosper. But their way of life is under threat. Farming is undergoing huge change and increasingly harmful intervention. As the years pass, and Harold has a son of his own, he strives to keep control of his land, to make a go of it, even while forces he cannot understand are gradually destroying him…

Towards Mellbreak is a hymn both to the landscape of Cumbria and to a disappearing world. Poetic, beautiful and tragic, it gives an account of the struggle to preserve traditions and beliefs in the face of change. It is a quietly bold indictment of the treatment of generations of British men, and an assertion of the power to be found in the rituals we pass down through our families.

About the Author

Marie-Elsa Roche Bragg is half French, half Cumbrian and was brought up in London. She studied Philosophy and Theology at the University of Oxford, and trained for the Priesthood at Ripon College Cuddesdon. She is a Priest in the diocese of London, an Ignatian spiritual director, a therapist and a Duty Chaplain of Westminster Abbey. Her first novel, Towards Mellbreak, was published in 2017.