He was a first-time novelist whose tale of a manly vocation and family trauma broke publishing and then movie rights records when Robert Redford bought them.
One of the region’s biggest housebuilders has donated £1,000 to the Whitworth in Darley Dale to support ongoing maintenance and upgrades on the historic building.
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