Getting Free
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Cover of the first British edition. | |
Author | Nigel Hinton |
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Language | English |
Genre | Teenage fiction |
Publisher | Oxford University Press (original UK), Thomas Nelson (original USA), E. P. Dutton, Heinemann |
Publication date | 1978 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Hardback |
ISBN | 9780192714244 |
Getting Free is a novel by British author Nigel Hinton that was first published in 1978. It tells the story of a teenage couple who ran away when they discovered they were expectant parents and to escape from an abusive and disapproving father.
Concept
[edit]Hinton had neighbours who were famous mountain climbers, a young couple who were into things that he was not. He decided that writing about the couple would be good for him.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ "Concept of the novel". Nigel Hinton website. Retrieved 4 October 2014.