Who wrote the 1977 Booker Prize winning novel 'Staying On'?
Staying On there. The more common practice was to retire on pension to Britain. In 1980, it was turned into a television film by Granada TV, starring Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson, famously the stars, thirty-five years before, of "Brief Encounter". This paved the way for the television treatment of "The Jewel in the Crown", based on Scott's Raj Quartet, to which it is in fact a coda. Staying On Staying On is a novel by Paul Scott, which was published in 1977 and won the Booker Prize. "Staying On" focuses on Tusker and Lucy Smalley, who are briefly mentioned in the
Booker Prize Booker Prize The Man Booker Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Booker–McConnell Prize and commonly known simply as the Booker Prize) is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the UK. The winner of the Man Booker Prize is generally assured international renown and success; therefore, the prize is of great significance for the book trade. From its inception, only novels written by Commonwealth, Irish, and South African (and later Zimbabwean) citizens were eligible to receive the prize; in 2014, however, this eligibility was widened to any