Buddy's Blues

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Buddy's Blues
File:Buddy's Blues first edition cover.jpg Cover of the first edition.
Author	Nigel Hinton
Language	English
Genre	Teenage fiction
Publisher	Viking Press (original), Puffin Books, CB Creative (current publisher)
Publication date	13 November 1995
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Hardback, Paperback, E-book
ISBN	978-0670862771
Preceded by	Buddy's Song

Buddy's Blues is a novel by British author Nigel Hinton which was first published in 1995. It is the third and final installment in the Buddy trilogy, after Buddy and Buddy's Song, and follows the rest of Buddy's life from the age of 18 including his musical career.

Concept

At the swimming pool the author once saw an old man trying to teach his granddaughter how to swim. This made Hinton wonder if Terry would have done a better job looking after a grandchild than Buddy. Also the film version of Buddy's Song had just been released and a song from the film went on to top the charts so the author combined the two to write Buddy's Blues.^[1]

Award

In 1996 the novel won the Stockport Schools' Book Award.^[2]

References

↑ "Concept of the novel". Nigel Hinton website. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
↑ "Entry on the award (see answer to final question)". Q & A section of the Nigel Hinton website. Archived from the original on 2007-08-14. Retrieved 4 October 2014.

v t e 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) The Norris Girls (2017)
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	Take Me Home (Roger Daltrey song) (1987) Buddy's Song (album) (1991) "I'm a Man Not a Boy" "Secrets of the Heart (Chesney Hawkes song)"

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