The Hired Man by Melvyn Bragg

240 pages first pub 1969 (editions)

fiction historical emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced
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Set in Cumbria and covering the period from 1898 to the early twenties, this is the powerful saga of John Tallentire, first farm labourer, then coal miner, and his wife Emily. John's struggle to break free from the humiliating status of a 'hired m...

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