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Longlisted for the Booker Prize

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. Yet for them, as for so many, life will never be the same again. As the old order begins to be challenged and new vistas open, Sam and Ellen forge their future together with differing needs and desires - and conflicting expectations of Joe, who grows up with his own demons to confront.

A Son of War

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Longlisted for the Booker Prize After the upheavals of the Second World War, the Richardson family - Sam, Ellen and... Read more

    Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
    Publication Date: 21/03/2002
    ISBN13: 9780340818169, 978-0340818169
    ISBN10: 0340818166

    Number of Pages: 432

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

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    Longlisted for the Booker Prize

    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. Yet for them, as for so many, life will never be the same again. As the old order begins to be challenged and new vistas open, Sam and Ellen forge their future together with differing needs and desires - and conflicting expectations of Joe, who grows up with his own demons to confront.

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