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Redmond's teenage characters are well drawn, and the small universe of the school becomes a real emotional landscape, where the pupils are credited with passionate and complex emotion (Independent on Sunday)
The setting is genuinely chilling, and the atmosphere of menace and sterility riveting; (Daily Express)
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Such is the hard-edged skill of Redmond's writing that the carefully structured revelations about the past have a bitter and compelling power (TLS)
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The setting is genuinely chilling, and the atmosphere of menace and sterility riveting; (Daily Express)
Well-crafted and thought-provoking . . . Redmond shows himself to be a scrupulously fair writer who refuses to stereotype his characters and views human behaviour with a high degree of compassion (Financial Times)
Well-paced and suspenseful (Gay Times)
This impressive first novel powerfully evokes the terrible effects of cruelty and bullying, whether by an adult or another child, and the unravelling nightmare is sustained with suspense and pace (Sunday Mirror)
Such is the hard-edged skill of Redmond's writing that the carefully structured revelations about the past have a bitter and compelling power (TLS)
Patrick Redmond's chilling debut novel is a first-rate page-turner (Daily Mirror)
The setting is genuinely chilling, and the atmosphere of menace and sterility riveting (Daily Express)
Redmond's teenage characters are well-drawn, and the small universe of the school becomes a real emotional landscape, where the pupils are credited with passionate and complex emotion (Independent on Sunday)
A powerful psychological thriller of haunting suspense set in a Norfolk boys' boarding school in the 1950s.
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- EditoreCoronet Books
- Data di pubblicazione2000
- ISBN 10 0340748184
- ISBN 13 9780340748183
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine412
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