Staying On is a novel by Paul Scott which was published by University of Chicago Press in 1977. It was the recipient of the 1977 Booker prize.
First edition
Paul Mark Scott was an English novelist best known for his tetralogy The Raj Quartet. In the last years of his life, his novel Staying On won the Booker Prize (1977). The series of books was dramatised by Granada Television during the 1980s and won Scott the public and critical acclaim that he had not received during his lifetime.
Scott in 1977