 First edition | |
| Author | David Storey |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Jonathan Cape |
Publication date | 1976 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 506 |
| ISBN | 0-224-01273-8 |
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The novel centres on Colin, a young boy growing up in the Yorkshire mining village of Saxton during the Second World War and the postwar years. [1]
Saville won the 1976 Booker Prize for fiction. [2]
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