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Towards Mellbreak

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After many generations, it is now Harold who runs Ard Farm. Out on the fells, he feels his father’s 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. Towards Mellbreak is a hymn both to the landscape of Cumbria and to a disappearing world. Poetic, beautiful and tragic, it exposes the struggle to preserve traditions and beliefs in the face of change, and an assertion of the power to be found in the rituals we pass down through our families.

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Weight 0.182 kg
Dimensions 1.4 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback
Language

Pages

224
Publisher

Year Published

2018-4-5
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

1784705012
About The Author

Marie-Elsa Roche Bragg is half French, half Cumbrian and was brought up in London. She studied Philosophy and Theology at the University of Oxford, and trained for the Priesthood at Ripon College Cuddesdon. She is a Priest in the diocese of London, an Ignatian spiritual director, a therapist and a Duty Chaplain of Westminster Abbey. Her first novel, Towards Mellbreak, was published in 2017.
Review Quote

A really extraordinary, beautiful meditation on place and time, tradition and identity… passionate, quiet, political
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This novel is so subtly written, building up the stories of good people and their tough lives, that we feel and then understand the depth of their relationships to each other and this beautiful, hard land – and so the tragedy of what happens is all the more heartbreaking.

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