Flight into Camden

First edition (publ. Longman)

Flight into Camden is a novel by British author and playwright David Storey. Written in 1961, it won the 1963 Somerset Maugham Prize for fiction.

Synopsis[]

This moving story is recounted by Margaret, the daughter of a Yorkshire miner, who falls in love with a married teacher and goes to live with him in a room in Camden Town, London. Many critics have observed an almost lawrentian fidelity in the descriptions of their love-making and the intricacies of their emotional responses to one another. But in the end family ties prove too strong for an ambiguous relationship which begins to disclose a chasm of emptiness and bitterness.

References[]

Storey, David. "Flight into Camden". 1961, New York. (ISBN 1446426130, 9781446426135)
http://literature.britishcouncil.org/david-storey

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