North of England Home Service, The

Review\n"Extraordinary, funny, tender, poetic . . . The story that emerges is Britain’s." ― Times Literary Supplement\n"The history he presents, at times wielding Orwellian eloquence, is worth the price of the book itself." ― Independent\n"A lavish recreation of the postwar landscapes . . . Written with all the eye-catching detail that gives Burn’s non-fiction its allure." ― Guardian\n"No other English writer does quite what Burn does, and he does it brilliantly." ― Times\nIn a forensic dissection of Britain’s souring landscape Gordon Burn tells the tale of Ray Cruddas, a light entertainer effecting a semi-dignified retreat from a fading career, who returns to the unnamed northern town of his youth.