Towards Mellbreak-Marie-Elsa Bragg

Towards MellbreakAuthor(s): Marie-Elsa Bragg\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom\nImprint: Chatto & Windus\nISBN-13: 9781784741334, 978-1784741334\nSynopsis\n*Shortlisted for the Writers' Guild Best First Novel Award*\n**Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in the New Statesman**\n\nAfter many generations, it is now, in 1971, Harold who runs Ard Farm. Out on the fells, he feels his fathers presence, and there is hope that he, his grandmother and his Uncle Joe will be able to take the farm forward and prosper. But their way of life is under threat. Farming is undergoing huge change and increasingly harmful intervention. As the years pass, and Harold has a son of his own, he strives to keep control of his land, to make a go of it, even while forces he cannot understand are gradually destroying him\n\nTowards Mellbreak is a hymn both to the landscape of Cumbria and to a disappearing world. Poetic, beautiful and tragic, it gives an account of the stru.