A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines

A Kestrel for a Knave

Barry Hines with Gareth Bennett-Ryan (Contributor)

208 pages first pub 1968 (editions)

fiction classics young adult emotional sad medium-paced
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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 kestre...

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