β Scribed by David Storey
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A novel about family and class restrictions by the Man Booker Prizeβwinning author of This Sporting Life and Saville
With 2 rooms downstairs and 3 upstairs, the house at Spinney Moor Road is a real step-up for the Morley family. Arthur Morley is a farmer who frequently comes home drunk, and who often competes with his prudish, penny-pinching wife, Sarah, for the love of their boys, Alan and Bryan. It is Bryan, the younger son, who begins to want more out of life. He yearns for something better and finds it when he goes to live with the childless Fay Corrigan at her posh home in town during the week, while attending a prep school that she pays for. But Bryan soon feels a growing chasm between his new life and the world he left behind. And his mounting jealous-erotic obsession with the much-older Fay leads to actionsβand consequencesβthat will reverberate for years to come.
Beginning in the 1930s and concluding with the...
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