Saville

Summary

Following Colin Saville from his childhood in a Yorkshire mining village through grammar school and into uneasy adulthood, the novel charts the cost of social mobility in postwar England. Storey writes with a stripped, almost theatrical austerity, building meaning through repetition, silence and the heavy presence of work and weather. The book is a definitive portrait of the scholarship-boy generation caught between the world of their parents and the one education has opened.