The Walking Stick is a 1967 thriller novel by the British writer Winston Graham. The central character, Deborah Dainton, is a disabled woman lacking in self confidence, who unexpectedly becomes involved with an enigmatic man from a different background.
Graham said that “judged solely by financial criteria, [it was] the most successful novel I’ve ever written”.Winston Graham. Memoirs of a Private Man (2003), p. 157
Adaptation In 1970 the story was turned into a film of the same title directed by Eric Till and starring David Hemmings and Samantha Eggar.Goble p.1008
References
Bibliography Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.