Book description
This moving story is recounted by Margaret, the daughter of a Yorshire
miner, who falls in love with a married teacher and goes to live with
him in a room in Camden Town, London. Many critics have observed and
almost lawrentian fidelity in the descriptions of their love-making and
the intricacies of their emotional responses to one another. But in the
end family ties prove too strong for an ambiguous relationship which
begins to disclose a chasm of emptiness and bitterness. David Storey
was born in 1933 in Wakefield, and studied at the Slade School of Art.
His novels have won many prizes, including the Macmillan Fiction Award,
the Somerset Maugham Award, the Faber Memorial Prize and, in 1976, the
Booker Prize for
Saville
. He is also the author of fifteen plays. He lives in London.
