Colin Saville grows up in a mining village in South Yorkshire, against the background of war, of an industrialised countryside, of town and coalmine and village.
### Review
"If you haven't read David Storey's 1976 winner Saville read it at once, it is the best of all the Bookers" Observer "A tremendous novel" The Economist "Saville" is a splendid novel, replete with virtues beyond its appeal to those otherwise undiscriminating readers who demand stories about nice people." -- Peter S. Prescott Newsweek "Mesmerically readable... A revelation" The Times "A marvellousl evocation of place and character... This is a book made more than usually remarkable by its intensity of feeling" Daily Telegraph
### From the Inside Flap
Colin Saville grows up in a mining village in South Yorkshire, against the background of war, of an industrialised countryside, of town and coalmine and village.
*From the Trade Paperback edition.*
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Colin Saville grows up in a mining village in South Yorkshire, against the background of war, of an industrialised countryside, of town and coalmine and village. ### Review "If you haven't read David Storey's 1976 winner Saville read it at once, it is the best of all the Bookers" Observer "A tremendous novel" The Economist "Saville" is a splendid novel, replete with virtues beyond its appeal to those otherwise undiscriminating readers who demand stories about nice people." -- Peter S. Prescott Newsweek "Mesmerically readable... A revelation" The Times "A marvellousl evocation of place and character... This is a book made more than usually remarkable by its intensity of feeling" Daily Telegraph ### From the Inside Flap Colin Saville grows up in a mining village in South Yorkshire, against the background of war, of an industrialised countryside, of town and coalmine and village. *From the Trade Paperback edition.*