Crossing the Lines

Following The Soldier’s Return , heralded as “a novel written in fine steel sentences and granite paragraphs” by the Washington Post , and the equally brilliant A Son of War , Melvyn Bragg brings “one of the finest sagas of postwar Britain” ( London Sunday Telegraph ) to a stunning conclusion. Set in the 1950s, this absorbing novel follows the intertwined fates of people crossing boundaries in their lives. Alive with a wide cast of characters, Crossing the Lines vividly portrays the spirit and a