The Silken Net

A strong and solid novel, with a totally convincing figure, at once fallible and admirable, at its centre - Sunday TelegraphDistinguished by passages of prose which have precisely the sort of leaping life that Lawrence held up before himself as an ideal all through his career ... Melvyn Bragg has already a considerable body of work behind him. THE SILKEN NET is his best book yet - GuardianMost attractive of all is this book's open-heartedness, its serious intention and a certain ingenuousness in the way it treats its themes - The Sunday TimesMelvyn Bragg writes with a timelessness that suits his heroine and his theme, that is in tune with the whole story - Financial TimesWords could be used linking Melvyn Bragg with Hardy, Lawrence and Bennett in the Grand Chain: that he belongs there is indisputable - New StatesmanA strong and solid novel, with a totally convincing figure, at once fallible and admirable, at its centre - Sunday TelegraphDistinguished by passages of prose which have precisely the sort of leaping life that Lawrence held up before himself as an ideal all through his career ... Melvyn Bragg has already a considerable body of work behind him. THE SILKEN NET is his best book yet - GuardianMost attractive of all is this book's open-heartedness, its serious intention and a certain ingenuousness in the way it treats its themes - The Sunday Times