Barry Hines: A Kestrel for a Knave (Penguin Modern Classics) [2000] paperback Condition:Good rejoiced by the lift of

rejoiced by the lift of his great sweeping wings

ruler of Marquensas

London flourished

'Lucy Foley is really very clever' Anthony Horowitz

Published to critical acclaim

Barry Hines: A Kestrel for a Knave (Penguin Modern Classics) [2000] paperback Condition:Good rejoiced by the lift ofWith prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave contains a new afterword by the author in Penguin Modern Classics. Life is tough and cheerless for Billy Casper, a troubled teenager growing up in the small Yorkshire mining town of Barnsley. Treated as a failure at school, and unhappy at home, Billy discovers a new passion in life when he finds Kes, a kestrel hawk. Billy