![]() He’s belligerent and hedonistic with a healthy scepticism of all forms of authority. ![]() It’s no wonder that a councillor at the time wanted the novel banned, fearing it would damage the reputation of Nottingham forever.īut Seaton is more than just your average drunk. By the end of the evening he’s had a drinking game with a sailor, puked up over a couple of oldies, fell headfirst down the stairs, and ended up in bed with someone else’s wife. The novel opens with Seaton having a skinful down his local, The White Horse, for no other reason than it was Saturday night, “the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the year”. Half a century ago, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning became the first Pan paperback to sell a million copies thanks to master gobshite Arthur Seaton. ![]()
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