Written for adults, this novel reads as if it could have been a book for children or teenagers. Cobbler's Dream is the name of a show-jumping pony whose nasty-little-rich-girl owner beats him around the head...
Violence
Sarah Daniels
She was lastingly impressed by an incident at her school when a boy raped a girl at knife-point. The boy was removed to a borstal
or school for young offenders, but the headmaster then addressed...
Timeline
By September 1959: Alan Sillitoe, husband of the poet Ruth Fainlight,...
Writing climate item
By September 1959
Alan Sillitoe
, husband of the poet Ruth Fainlight
, published the second of his best-known works, a short-story volume entitled The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner.
Sillitoe, Alan. Life without Armour. HarperCollins, 1995.
