Author: Hines, Barry
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 4 August 2016 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin Essentials' series.
Paperback | 208 pages
182 x 114 x 13 | 120g
The classic book that inspired Kes, the famous film, now published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave was published in 1968, and was made into one of the key British films of the sixties. Billy Casper is beaten by his drunken brother, ignored by his mother and failing at school. He seems destined for a hard, miserable life down the pits, but for a brief time, he finds one pleasure in life: a wild kestrel that he has raised and tamed himself.