The Silken Net

by Melvyn Bragg

Publisher Secker & Warburg

Genre: General Fiction

Publication date: January 1, 1974

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Near fine first edition with slight yellowing to page edges and bruising to top of spine. In an unclipped dust jacket with small scuffs to top and bottom edges.

About the book

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.

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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