Getting Free

Getting Free
Cover of the first British edition.
Author	Nigel Hinton
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Teenage fiction
Publisher	Oxford University Press (original UK), Thomas Nelson (original USA), E. P. Dutton, Heinemann
Publication date	1978
Media type	Hardback
ISBN	9780192714244

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

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

Works by Nigel Hinton

Buddy series	Buddy (1982) Buddy's Song (1987) Buddy's Blues (1995)

Other teenage fiction	Collision Course (1976) Getting Free (1978) Out of the Darkness (1998) Ship of Ghosts (1999) Partners in Crime (2003) Time Bomb (2005) Until Proven Guilty (2006) 2 Die 4 (2009) Walk the Wild Road (2009) Ghost Game (2011) On the Edge (2014) Daredevil (2015)

Beaver Towers series	Beaver Towers (1980) The Witch's Revenge (1981) The Dangerous Journey (1986) The Dark Dream (1997)

Other children's fiction	The Finders (1993)

Adult fiction	The Heart of the Valley (1986)

Fiction for people learning English	Blood Ties (2000)

Television series	Buddy (1986)

Film scrips	Buddy's Song (1990)

Music	Buddy's Song (1991)

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