| Getting Free | |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Author: | Nigel Hinton |
| Genre: | Teenage fiction |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press (original UK), Thomas Nelson (original USA), E. P. Dutton, Heinemann |
| Release Date: | 1978 |
| Media Type: | Hardback |
| Isbn: | 9780192714244 |
Getting Free is a novel by British author Nigel Hinton that was first published in 1978. It tells the story of a teenage couple who ran away when they discovered they were expectant parents and to escape from an abusive and disapproving father.
Hinton had neighbours who were famous mountain climbers, a young couple who were into things that he was not. He decided that writing about the couple would be good for him.[1]