A Kestrel for a Knave
by Barry Hines and Barry Hines
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Life is tough and cheerless for Billy Casper, a disillusioned teenager growing up in a small Yorkshire mining town. Violence is commonplace and he is frequently cold and hungry. Yet he is determined to be a survivor and when he finds Kes, a kestrel hawk he discovers a passion in life. Billy identifies with her proud silence and she inspired in him the trust and love that nothing else can. Intense and raw and bitingly honest, A KETREL FOR A KNAVE was first published in 1968 and was also madeinto a highly acclaimed film, 'Kes', directed by Ken Loach.
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Fiction, general, England, fiction, Boys, fiction, Fiction, Literature, Fiction in English, Working Classes in Fiction, Criminals, Biography, Businessmen, Gangsters, Children of criminals, Organized crime, Large type books, Kestrels, Human-animal relationships, Dysfunctional families, Fiction, family life, generalPlaces
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Kes: (a kestrel for aknave)
1977, Magna Print Books
in English
- Large print ed.
086009085X 9780860090854
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