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Getting Free
Cover of the first British edition.
AuthorNigel Hinton
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreTeenage fiction
PublisherOxford University Press (original UK), Thomas Nelson (original USA), E. P. Dutton, Heinemann
Publication date
1978
Media typeHardback
ISBN9780192714244

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

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

  1. ^ "Concept of the novel". Nigel Hinton website. Retrieved 4 October 2014.