Stan Barstow's landmark ' Brit-Lit' novel of the sixties immortalized Vic Brown the amiable working class lad from the North & led the way for author's like Nick Hornby writing similar slice-of-life drama. Still as fresh & alive today it spawned two sequels: The Watchers on the Shore (1966) & The Right True End (1976). First published in 1960 it has long been used as a set text in British schools. It has also been translated at various times into a film starring Alan Bates (1962) of the same name a television series (1973) starring Clive Wood a radio play & a stage play. 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 & a move from the mining town of Cressley to London.