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The Second Inheritance

The Second Inheritance

by Melvyn Bragg

Publisher Hodder & Stoughton

Genre: Historical Fiction

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    Fine first edition with a tiny bump on the top of the spine and yellowing pages. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket with a small bump on the top edge of the back cover.

    This book is located in our Brighton store and may take longer for delivery.

About the book

Set in the Border country of Northern England, The Second Inheritance follows two young men as they struggle with the constraints of a close-knit farming community. Amid the intimacies and tensions of their families, they discover that only through each other's passion for escape will they finally be able to live their youth.

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About the Author

Melvyn Bragg

Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg of Wigton in the County of Cumbria, CH, HonFRS, FRSL, FBA is an English broadcaster, author and parliamentarian. He is the editor and presenter of The South Bank Show, and the presenter of the BBC Radio 4 documentary series In Our Time.

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