A Kind of Loving

This article is about the novel. For 1962 film adaptation, see A Kind of Loving (film).

1st edition (publ. Michael Joseph)

A Kind of Loving is a novel by the English novelist Stan Barstow. First published in 1960, it has long been used as a set text in British schools. It has also been translated at various times into a film of the same name, a television series, a radio play and a stage play. A Kind of Loving was the first of a trilogy, published over the course of sixteen years, that followed hero Vic Brown through marriage, divorce and a move from the mining town of Cressley to London. The other two parts are The Watchers on the Shore and The Right True End.

Adaptations

In 1962 the novel was turned into a film A Kind of Loving directed by John Schlesinger and starring Alan Bates and June Ritchie. In 1982 ITV made a ten-part television series A Kind of Loving starring Clive Wood as Vic Brown and Joanne Whalley as Ingrid Brown.