Imprint
- Sceptre
Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
A compelling story of passion, loyalty and the dangers of an obsessive relationship
Half-French with an agile, inquiring mind, Rosemary Lewis cannot help being out of the ordinary in Thurston, the Cumbrian market town where she grows up between the wars. An early, bruising failure in love drives her inwards to the solace of books until she meets Edgar - vigorous, down to earth and determined to win her. Charting their life together, this powerful novel probes with exceptional acuity the heights and tortured depths of a bond that becomes a shackle.
Praise for The Silken Net
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A strong and solid novel, with a totally convincing figure, at once fallible and admirable, at its centre - Sunday Telegraph
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Distinguished by passages of prose which have precisely the sort of leaping life that Lawrence held up before himself as an ideal all through his career ... Melvyn Bragg has already a considerable body of work behind him. THE SILKEN NET is his best book yet - Guardian
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Most attractive of all is this book's open-heartedness, its serious intention and a certain ingenuousness in the way it treats its themes - The Sunday Times
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Melvyn Bragg writes with a timelessness that suits his heroine and his theme, that is in tune with the whole story - Financial Times
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Words could be used linking Melvyn Bragg with Hardy, Lawrence and Bennett in the Grand Chain: that he belongs there is indisputable - New Statesman
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A strong and solid novel, with a totally convincing figure, at once fallible and admirable, at its centre - Sunday Telegraph
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Distinguished by passages of prose which have precisely the sort of leaping life that Lawrence held up before himself as an ideal all through his career ... Melvyn Bragg has already a considerable body of work behind him. THE SILKEN NET is his best book yet - Guardian
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Most attractive of all is this book's open-heartedness, its serious intention and a certain ingenuousness in the way it treats its themes - The Sunday Times
Melvyn Bragg
Melvyn Bragg is a writer and broadcaster whose first novel, For Want of a Nail, was published in 1965. His novels since include The Maid of Buttermere, The Soldier's Return, A Son of War, Credo and Now is the Time, which won the Parliamentary Book Award for fiction in 2016. His books have also been awarded the Time/Life Silver Pen Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the WHSmith Literary Award, and have been longlisted three times for the Booker Prize (including the Lost Man Booker Prize).
He has also written several works of non-fiction, including The Adventure of English and The Book of Books about the King James Bible.
He lives in London and Cumbria.
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