Birthday Book by Whitecap Books

Birthday Book by Whitecap Books

The sequel to 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'.

'Birthday' is the sequel to Alan Sillitoe's classic novel of the 1950s, 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'.

Four decades on from the novel which was at the forefront of the new wave of British literature, we rediscover the Seaton brothers: older, certainly; wiser - possibly not.

Arthur and Brian Seaton, one with an ailing wife, one with an emotional knapsack of failure and success, are on their way to Jenny's seventieth birthday party. Jenny and Brian had years ago experimented with sex - semi-clothed, stealthy, with the bonus of fear. Arthur, of course, had cut a winning swathe through the married and unmarried women of Nottinghamshire.

Life has changed. But there is still pleasure; and still pain.

Alan Sillitoe is undoubtedly one of the greatest English writers of our time, and, indeed, one of the most influential.

Whitecap Books was founded in 1977 and has since evolved to become one of Canada's top 10 book publishing and distribution firms. Whitecap developed a name for itself as Canada's leading creator of full-color gift and coffee table books on Canadian provinces, cities, and natural marvels in the 1970s and early 1980s. The firm is still publishing in this area, with a 27-book Canada series and 36 books in the America Series. More than 300 Canadian-originated titles and more than 1,000 agency-listed titles are currently on Whitecap's list. Whitecap is well-known for its knowledge of the cookbook industry.

Whitecap has been responsible for some of the most inventive and well-known products seen in kitchens across North America since 1984. Whitecap also publishes and distributes books on gardening and crafts, photography, history, the arts and entertainment, children's fiction and non-fiction, travel, sports, and transportation.