Marabou Stork Nightmares His life in this state is a miserable affair, surrounded by uncaring doctors and his extremely dysfunctional family. In his fantasy life, he is an adventurer in the wilds of South Africa, where he and his loyal guide, Sandy Jamieson, hunt for the marabou stork. When not hallucinating, Strang tells his life story, beginning in a "scheme" (local authority housing) in Muirhouse, Scotland, with his violent, delusional parents, two half-brothers (one a womanizer, the other flamboyantly gay), and his promiscuous sister, all of whom he despises. The family relocates to apartheid-era South Africa when he is an adolescent, where he
A Kind of Loving to love. The novel has had some influence on the literary community, leaving the label "lad-lit" behind, although the term itself was not coined until the 1990s. In 1962 the novel was turned into a film "A Kind of Loving" directed by John Schlesinger and starring Alan Bates and June Ritchie. In 1982 ITV company Granada Television made a ten-part television series "A Kind of Loving" starring Clive Wood as Vic Brown and Joanne Whalley as Ingrid Brown. A Kind of Loving A Kind of Loving is a novel by the English novelist Stan Barstow. It has also been translated