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((short description|1960 novel by Stan Barstow))
((About|the novel|1962 film adaptation|A Kind of Loving (film)))
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'''''A Kind of Loving''''' is a [[novel]] by the English novelist [[Stan Barstow]]. It has also been translated into [[A Kind of Loving (film)|a film of the same name]], a television series, a radio play and a stage play.

Published in 1960, ''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'' (1966)<ref>((Cite web|url=http://www.stanbarstow.info/watchers.html|title = The Watchers on the Shore))</ref> and ''The Right True End'' (1976).<ref>((Cite web|url=http://www.stanbarstow.info/righttrueend.html|title=The Right True End))</ref>

== Plot summary ==
The story presents to us Vic Brown, a young working class man from Yorkshire, England, who is slowly inching his way up from his working-class roots through a white-collar job. Vic finds himself trapped by the frightening reality of his girlfriend Ingrid's pregnancy and is forced into marrying her and moving in with his mother-in-law due to a housing shortage in their Northern England town.

The story is about love and loneliness. Vic meets and is very attracted to the beautiful but demanding Ingrid. As their relationship develops and transforms into real-life everyday aridity and boredom, Vic ultimately comes to terms with his life and what it really means to love. The novel has had some influence on the literary community, leaving the label "lad-lit" behind, although the term itself was not coined until the 1990s.<ref>((Cite web|url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2727751-a-kind-of-loving|title = A Kind of Loving))</ref>

== Adaptations ==
In 1962 the novel was turned into a [[A Kind of Loving (film)|film of the same name]]. Directed by [[John Schlesinger]] and starring [[Alan Bates]] as Vic and [[June Ritchie]] as Ingrid, it was written for the screen by [[Keith Waterhouse]] and [[Willis Hall]].

''A Kind of Loving'' was adapted by Barstow as a radio play for the [[BBC]] in 1964, with Brian Peck as Vic and June Barry as Ingrid.<ref>((Cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/added6cc126e4ebf84f897db8db26f2c|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index))</ref> The two sequels followed, both for BBC radio, in 1971<ref>((Cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/eba8b92b877f415f8bb2ae96733e04de|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index))</ref> and 1978<ref>((Cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/6bd7a29d4e154042b572f03c7db5cef2|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index))</ref> respectively, with the same actors reprising their roles.

In 1982 Barstow adapted his novel and the two sequels as a ten-part series for [[Granada Television]], collectively entitled ''A Kind of Loving''. [[Clive Wood]] starred as Vic, with [[Joanne Whalley]] as Ingrid and [[Susan Penhaligon]] as Donna (the woman with whom Vic has an affair and for whom he leaves Ingrid in the second and third books).

== References ==
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[[Category:Michael Joseph books]]

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