The Full Monty (Penguin Readers - Level 4)

The Full Monty is the novelization of a very popular film which was released in 1997. The story takes place in Sheffield, an industrial town in the north of England, in the early 1980s. As in many towns in Britain at that time, the town has far fewer jobs available in heavy industry then it did in the past. Factories making steel used to employ the men of the town. Now the factories employ fewer men and many men stay at home. There is work for the women in the new companies which have started up, but less work for the men.