'With this novel, Melvyn Bragg has established his place in English letters to the extent that his Cumbria is as potent a literary region as Hardy's Wessex, Lawrence's Midlands and Housman's Shropshire' New Statesman
At once a love story and a portrayal of innocence brutally curtailed, Josh Lawton charts the rites of passage of a young Cumbrian farm worker and keen fell runner - an exceptionally good man whose very integrity proves his undoing.
'Every scene is clear, every character immediately recognisable . . . brilliant' Daily Telegraph
'The book is exciting . . . a pleasure to be remembered' Financial Times
- ISBN10 0340494808
- ISBN13 9780340494806
- Publish Date 1 March 1989 (first published 10 July 1972)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 25 May 2022
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
- Imprint Sceptre
- Edition 2nd edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 224
- Language English