All the novels draw somehow on Storey's own experiences, as a professional rugby player, farm worker, schoolteacher, artist, writer, and parent. The novels graphically chronicle the lives of the “north country” people who live amid the smoke- and steam-belching factories, mills, and collieries of gray industrial towns in Yorkshire, where he grew up. The major passage in Storey's life came when he moved away from the people of the West Riding and their value system to join the educated class in London. The effects of his social, geographical, and intellectual uprooting are everywhere delineated in his writing.
David Malcolm Storey was born in the industrial city of Wakefield on 13 July 1933, the third of four sons of Frank Richmond Storey, a Yorkshire coal miner, and Lily Cartwright Storey. The family's second son, Anthony, was himself to become a well-known novelist and screenwriter.
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