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Colin Saville doesn’t fit in easily at the grammar school in town – 1940s middle-class society is so different from the mining village of his childhood.
He makes tentative friendships and meets girls over long, empty summers but feels like an outsider with them and, increasingly, at home. Following the pattern of David Storey’s own early years, Saville is a remarkably honest portrait of the tensions between parents and children, the difficulties of making one’s own way in life, and the social divisions that persist still.
A Haunted Life
I am a great admirer of the novels of David Storey, one of the wave of post-war northern writers characterized by a desire to give voices to working-class men and women. His fifth novel, Saville, was...
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