A Prodigal Child

Name: A Prodigal Child
Author: David Storey

About the author

Storey was a playwright and novelist whose This Sporting Life combined a visceral account of rugby league with psychological depth. His depiction of working-class male experience in the north of England has tremendous force.

More by David Storey

This Sporting LifeNovel about a former rugby player struggling with injury and working-class despair
Flight into CamdenNovel exploring an affair between a woman and a middle-aged man
RadcliffeNovel about the relationship between two working-class men in post-war England
SavilleNovel set in a mining village following the life of a boy from childhood to adulthood