''Saville'' is a

Booker Prize The Booker Prize, formerly the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a prestigious literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language, wh ...

-winning novel by English writer

David Storey David Malcolm Storey (13 July 1933 – 27 March 2017) was an English playwright, screenwriter, award-winning novelist and a professional rugby league player. He won the Booker Prize in 1976 for his novel '' Saville''. He also won the MacMillan F ...

Plot

The novel centres on Colin, a young boy growing up in the

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village of Saxton during the Second World War and the postwar years.

Awards

''Saville'' won the 1976

for fiction.

References

Booker Prize–winning works 1970 British novels Novels by David Storey Novels set in Yorkshire Jonathan Cape books {{1970s-novel-stub