The Soldier's Return is the first novel in a quartet written by Melvyn Bragg.

Sam Richardson returns to the small Cumbrian town of Wigton after fighting in Burma during the Second World War.

The book won the WH Smith Literary Award in 2000,[1] and was followed by three sequels.

Sam Richardson is still struggling with effects of World War Two and to re-establish his relationship with his wife Ellen and young son Joe.

Joe Richardson is changing from an immature schoolboy into a confident student at Oxford who has the world at his feet.