Buddy's Blues is a novel by British author Nigel Hinton which was first published in 1995.

At the swimming pool the author once saw an old man trying to teach his granddaughter how to swim.

This made Hinton wonder if Terry would have done a better job looking after a grandchild than Buddy.

Also the film version of Buddy's Song had just been released and a song from the film went on to top the charts so the author combined the two to write Buddy's Blues.

[1] In 1996 the novel won the Stockport Schools' Book Award.