Flight into Camden

Flight into Camden is a novel by British author and playwright David Storey. Written in 1961, it won the 1963 Somerset Maugham Prize for fiction.

First edition (publ. Longman)

Synopsis

This moving story is recounted by Margaret, the daughter of a Yorkshire miner, who falls in love with a married teacher and goes to live with him in a room in Camden Town, London. Many critics have observed an almost lawrentian fidelity in the descriptions of their love-making and the intricacies of their emotional responses to one another. But in the end family ties prove too strong for an ambiguous relationship which begins to disclose a chasm of emptiness and bitterness.

References

• Storey, David. "Flight into Camden". 1961, New York. (ISBN 1446426130, 9781446426135)
• http://literature.britishcouncil.org/david-storey