Barry Hines' 1968 novel Kes blew into schools, along with Ted Hughes' The Hawk in the Wind (1957) and mixed-ability teaching.
The kestrel and the hawk weren't domestic pets, they weren't cute, and they weren't subject to 'rescue' and operations on TV shows.
Kes is this week's Book at Bedtime. (R4, weekdays, 10.45pm.)
160 pilot whales stranded and 26 confirmed dead in Western Australia – video
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Authorities are rushing to save more than 150 whales from a mass stranding
at a beach in Western Australia’s south-west. Four pods have spread across
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