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Rich Desserts And Captain’s Thin

Margaret Forster

£9.99

In 1831 John Dodgson Carr, son of a Quaker grocer, set off to walk from his home in Kendal to Carlisle, determined to launch a great enterprise. Within 15 years, Carr’s of Carlisle had become one of the largest baking businesses in the world – and is a by-word for biscuits to this day.

Following his trail to Carlisle (where she herself was born and grew up), Margaret Forster brings 19th-century daily life into vivid focus and charts the rise and rise of a middle-class family like the Carrs, ambitious, innovative yet sternly religious. This is history as it was lived by the men and women both above and below stairs – from the shop floor to the comfortable bourgeois homes of the paternalistic Carrs. We see the conflict between religion and profit, the family feuds and the changing face of a city through this compelling historical narrative, told with Margaret Forster’s characteristic blend of scholarship, readability and marvellous attention to the texture of everyday life.

publisher:

Vintage

pages:

304p

Publication Date:

2016 August

format:

Paperback; 198 x 128mm

ISBN:

9781784705541

illustrations:

Some black and white photographs