Melyvn Bragg

Melvyn Bragg launches his new novel Grace and Mary at the London Literature Festival.

Grace and Mary is a profoundly moving story spanning three generations.

John's mother Mary is in her nineties and lives in a nursing home by the sea in Cumbria. Her memory is beginning to fade. During each visit, John recognises that it is becoming more difficult to reach her.

Realising that Mary can live more fully in the past than in the present, John uses old photographs and music to take her back to the time when she was a young woman and he a child in Wigton.