← David StoreySavilleby David StoreyNovel set in a mining village following the life of a boy from childhood to adulthoodFind on Amazon↗About the authorDavid StoreyStorey 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 StoreyThis 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→A Prodigal Child→