a book by Stan Barstow that tells the story of a youngworking-class man who marries a woman he does not love after she becomespregnant. The book was made into a film and was one of several British books of the 1960s that told the stories of ordinary people in arealistic way.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
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