‘Melvyn Bragg writes with a lyrical nostalgia which is as important to the novel as his energy’
Penelope Fitzgerald, Evening Standard
‘Bragg has scarcely ever written better…A state of England message transfused by fiction’
Scotland on Sunday
Young Harry, an orphan from an impoverished council estate, becomes the link between starkly contrasting worlds: north and south, the deprived and the over-privileged, the powerful and the defenceless. With this compelling story of blackmail, media politics, corrupted innocence and redemptive love, Melvyn Bragg delivers an unforgettable portrait of modern life.
‘A splendid Dickensian sweep of a book’
Observer
‘The very good Bragg has forced a complex contemporary plot to work magic’
Mail on Sunday
Penelope Fitzgerald, Evening Standard
‘Bragg has scarcely ever written better…A state of England message transfused by fiction’
Scotland on Sunday
Young Harry, an orphan from an impoverished council estate, becomes the link between starkly contrasting worlds: north and south, the deprived and the over-privileged, the powerful and the defenceless. With this compelling story of blackmail, media politics, corrupted innocence and redemptive love, Melvyn Bragg delivers an unforgettable portrait of modern life.
‘A splendid Dickensian sweep of a book’
Observer
‘The very good Bragg has forced a complex contemporary plot to work magic’
Mail on Sunday