"I think that the book has survived as a set text because teachers like using it. It has a lot of possibilities from a teaching point of view. Most kinds of children seem to identify with the story. Northanger Abbey it is not! It should really be out of date now after all these years. But sadly, it's not. There are still a lot of kids like Billy around. Ken Loach's film Kes is a sympathetic retelling of the book. It adds value to it. Ken is a wonderful director for any writer to work with. I was very lucky that Tony Garnett the producer and Ken discovered my little book."
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Barry Hines
Melvin Barry Hines FRSL (30 June 1939 – 18 March 2016) was an English writer known for the novel A Kestrel for a Knave (which was adapted for the cinema as Kes) and scripts for television such as Threads.
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