Crossing the Lines: A Novel

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Arcade Publishing, 2005 - Fiction - 490 pages
Set in Britain during the 1950s, this moving and evocative novel follows the intertwined fates of people crossing boundaries in their lives. As a teenager in the small northern town of Wigton, Joe Richardson falls in love with Rachel, just when her life is about to be uprooted. While his parents, Sam and Ellen, face the frontiers of middle age, Joe finds himself drawn by the intoxicating world outside home, and swept into situations that seem beyond his control.
 

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Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
11
Section 3
23
Section 4
39
Section 5
51
Section 6
62
Section 7
78
Section 8
92
Section 24
253
Section 25
263
Section 26
273
Section 27
282
Section 28
290
Section 29
296
Section 30
305
Section 31
321

Section 9
106
Section 10
109
Section 11
113
Section 12
128
Section 13
133
Section 14
140
Section 15
146
Section 16
154
Section 17
165
Section 18
180
Section 19
189
Section 20
201
Section 21
217
Section 22
233
Section 23
240
Section 32
350
Section 33
366
Section 34
375
Section 35
383
Section 36
403
Section 37
414
Section 38
426
Section 39
435
Section 40
452
Section 41
464
Section 42
476
Section 43
482
Section 44
488
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About the author (2005)

Melvyn Bragg is a British writer and broadcaster. His novels include The Hired Man, for which he won the Time/Life Silver Pen Award, Without a City Wall, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, The Soldier's Return, winner of the WHSmith Literary Award, A Son of War and Crossing the Lines, both of which were longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and most recently Grace and Mary. He has also written several works of non-fiction, the latest being The Book of Books about the King James Bible. In 2015, his book The Adventure of English became a New York Times bestseller. He lives in London and Cumbria.

Bibliographic information

TitleCrossing the Lines: A Novel
Richardson saga
AuthorMelvyn Bragg
Editionreprint
PublisherArcade Publishing, 2005
ISBN1559707380, 9781559707381
Length490 pages
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Fiction / General
Fiction / Sagas
Fiction / Women
  
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