Kestrel for a Knave
About this book
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.
Subjects
- biography
- boys, fiction
- businessmen
- children of criminals
- criminals
- dysfunctional families
- england, fiction
- fiction
- fiction, family life, general
- fiction, general
- fiction in english
- gangsters
- human-animal relationships
- kestrels
- large type books
- literature
- organized crime
- working classes in fiction