George Purse is an ex-steelworker employed as a gamekeeper on a
ducal country estate. He gathers, hand-rears and treasures the
birds to be shot at by his wealthy employers. He must ensure that
the Duke and his guests have good hunts when the shooting season
comes round on the Glorious Twelfth; he must ensure that the
poachers who sneak onto the land in search of food do not. Season
by season, over the course of a year, George makes his rounds. He
is not a romantic hero. He is a laborer, who knows the natural
world well and sees it without sentimentality. Rightly acclaimed as
a masterpiece of nature writing as well as a radical statement on
work and class, The Gamekeeper was also, like Hines's A Kestrel for
a Knave (Kes), adapted by Hines and filmed by Ken Loach, and it too
stands as a haunting classic of twentieth-century fiction.
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