A Son of War

Proof copy. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 426. Pictorial wraps.

Signed and dated by Author to title page. Lightly soiled to block fore-edge, else Fine.

Long-listed for the Booker Prize. Second instalment in the trilogy, which follows the fortunes of a working-class Cumbrian family during and following the Second World War. It was preceded by The Soldier's Return (1999), winner of the WH Smith Literary Award, and was concluded with Crossing the Lines (2003). "Deeply humane and acutely truthful." –Peter Kemp, Sunday Times