The Soldiers Return

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: Sceptre
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1999
Edition: First Edition

Description: 345 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page. A Tour De Force As You Walk Through The Streets, Explore The Palaces, Experience The Scandals, Rivalries And Fierce Ambitions,

Publishers Description: When Sam Richardson returns in 1946 from the Forgotten War in Burma to Wigton in Cumbria, he finds little has changed, as far as his own limited prospects go. In his absence, though, his young family has altered immensely. His wife Ellen has found a sense of self worth in her war time jobs, and doesnt want to return to her old life. Their six-year-old son Joe, accustomed to his mothers undivided love and attention, doesnt welcome the father he barely remembers. And Sam finds the traumatic scenes he witnessed in Burma have changed him too, making the confines of this working class Cumbrian town stifling. The result is a family in turmoil, which reaches breaking point when Sam resolves to emigrate to Australia. Based on Melvyn Braggs own family and strongly evocative of its era as well as the Cumbrian landscape, this taut and powerful novel sits firmly in the tradition of his hugely popular Cumbrian novels.

ISBN: 9780340751008