A Kestrel for a Knave
A slight Barnsley boy, thumped at home by a half-brother already down the pit and written off at school by everyone bar one English teacher, climbs a monastery wall for a young kestrel and trains her from a falconry manual he has to steal because no library will lend to him. Everything happens across a single day, the flashbacks arriving between a paper round, a games lesson and an interview with the youth employment officer. Hines took his title from the Book of St Albans, which ranks hawks by the rank of the men allowed to fly them, and the novel became the standard English school text on class and childhood.
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