The Second Inheritance (Paperback)

Melvyn Bragg (author)

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Paperback 272 Pages
Published: 01/02/1990

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Synopsis

'A novel which has something to say and which says it well and truthfully' Evening Standard

In the shadow of Hadrian's Wall, two young men chafe at the constraints of rural life and yearn to break free from the courses set for them: John Foster, driven hard by his tyrannical, ambitious father on their tenant farm, and Arthur Langley, reluctant inheritor of his father's waning estate. Though class has long kept their neighbouring families apart, the pair form an intense friendship - until John makes the mistake of falling for Arthur's mercurial sister.

'The effect of the book is massive. Characterisations are loving, deep and perceptive' Sunday Times

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 9780340511138
Number of pages: 272
Weight: 200 g
Dimensions: 196 x 130 x 22 mm

MEDIA REVIEWS

There is no question of promise about him. He has arrived. His talent is formidable and is planted, I am convinced, in a deep earth from which he will draw even greater riches. The effect of the book is massive. Characterisations are loving, deep and perceptive. - Sunday Times

This is a novel which has something to say and which says it well and truthfully. - Evening Standard

Melvyn Bragg has created a world from his imagination which is highly charged and shot through with beauties which can reasonably be called poetic. - Scotsman

A deep moody masterpiece of atmosphere and character - She

Bragg has a very sure touch with his characters: they live' - Anthony Burgess