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The Wishing Game
Patrick Redmond
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Description for The Wishing Game
Paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Something terrible happened at Kirkston Abbey school for boys during the bleak winter term of 1954. Now, more than forty years later, journalist Tim Webber is determined to find out the truth. He uncovers a disturbing tale of a seemingly innocuous friendship between two fourteen-year-old boys who embark on a series of psychological power games which escalate with increasingly unnatural and sinister results.
Something terrible happened at Kirkston Abbey school for boys during the bleak winter term of 1954. Now, more than forty years later, journalist Tim Webber is determined to find out the truth. He uncovers a disturbing tale of a seemingly innocuous friendship between two fourteen-year-old boys who embark on a series of psychological power games which escalate with increasingly unnatural and sinister results.
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Coronet London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Number of Pages
412
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340748183
SKU
KAK0011286
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Patrick Redmond
Born in 1966, Patrick Redmond was educated in England and the Channel Islands, and studied law at Leicester University and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. For the past eight years he has worked as a solicitor at various firms in the City, specialising in international law. THE WISHING GAME is his first novel.
Reviews for The Wishing Game
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 Well-crafted and thought-provoking . . . ... Read more