Häftad, Engelska, 2015
Wishing Game
The gripping debut novel from the international bestseller
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Beskrivning
In the bleak winter term of 1954 something terrible happens at Kirkston Abbey School for Boys. Forty years later a journalist hovers near the truth, buried long ago by the panicked authorities.Kirkston Abbey is no place for the weak: its rules are harsh and its discipline savage. So the struggling Jonathan Palmer cannot believe his luck when Richard Rokeby - tough, handsome, aloof - befriends him.But Rokeby's possessive friendship is suffocating and, what starts out as an innocent game amongst friends, takes a shocking turn as Palmer finds himself powerless to stop Rokeby from unleashing a horrifying fate on them all.A brilliantly clever psychological thriller, The Wishing Game launched Redmond to his bestseller status.'A first-rate page turner' Daily Mirror 'Compelling' Times Literary Supplement 'Genuinely chilling' Daily Express'An impressive debut' Washington Post
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum: 2015-05-21
- Mått: 128 x 198 x 26 mm
- Vikt: 308 g
- Format: Häftad
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 448
- Förlag: Little, Brown Book Group
- ISBN: 9780751558920
Mer om författaren
Patrick Redmond was born in Essex in 1966. After attending school in Essex and the Channel Islands he completed a Law degree at Leicester University and then a Masters at University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He spent ten years working in the City of London specialising in Commercial and EU law, before leaving to become a full time writer.His novels have hit the bestseller lists in the UK, Germany and Italy, and have been translated into fifteen languages. Patrick lives in West London.
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The setting is genuinely chilling, and the atmosphere of menace and sterility riveting
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