![]() ![]() Yet for them, as for so many, life will never be the same again. ![]() ![]() Longlisted for the Booker Prize ‘Deeply humane and acutely truthful’ Peter Kemp, Sunday Times After the upheavals of the Second World War, the Richardson family - Sam, Ellen and their young son Joe - settle back to working-class life in the Cumbrian town of Wigton. This is a highly accomplished novel’ D.J. Utterly credible, utterly compelling, and very enjoyable’ Allan Massie, Scotsman ‘Deeply felt, beautifully realised’ John Sutherland, Sunday Times ‘The first Great War came alive in Faulks’s Birdsong the second Great War, and in particular the Burma campaign, comes very much alive in Melvyn Bragg’s The Soldier’s Return wholly absorbing’ John Bayley, Evening Standard ‘Sympathetic, touching, infinitely believable… As all three strive to adjust, the bonds of loyalty and love are stretched to breaking point in this taut, and profoundly moving novel. In addition, his six year old son now barely remembers him, and his wife has gained a sense of independence from her wartime jobs. ![]() But the war has changed him, broadening his horizons as well as leaving him with traumatic memories. ‘Unsentimental, truthful and wonderful’ Beryl Bainbridge, Independent Books of the Year When Sam Richardson returns in 1946 from the ‘Forgotten War’ in Burma to Wigton in Cumbria, he finds the town little changed. ![]()
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