Harris’s Requiem

Harris's Requiem is a novel by Stanley Middleton, published in 1960. It focuses on a composer who finds great pleasure in his creative work. Middleton was a British writer and academic known for his novels that explored lower-middle-class marital and familial relationships. Despite his unadorned style being out of literary fashion, Middleton received critical acclaim for his perceptive and restrained portrayal of ordinary people's lives and his honest assessment of provincial life. The novel Harris's Requiem is one of many Middleton published between the 1960s and 1980s.1