As someone born and bred not a million miles from the milieu depicted in this and similar fare - A Taste Of Honey, This Sporting Life, Saturday Night And Sunday Morning, Billy Liar - I've never been terribly enamoured of the 'Northern School', 'kitchen-sink' genre that sprung up like fungi in the late fifties/early sixties any more than I could abide the more traditional fare - Hobson's Choice, Hindle Wakes, Love On The Dole - with my taste running (for no apparent reason) more to Coward, Rattigan sophistication plus Esther McCracken's solid Home Counties values. Having said that A Kind Of Loving is among the finest of the genre with two rock-solid performances from the leads.
Review of A Kind of Loving
