Throw Me to the Wolves
Author(s): Patrick McGuinness
"Compulsively readable."--New York Times Book Review
"A significant literary achievement that also happens to be a terrific page-turner."- Jonathan Lee
"Elegantly written, darkly entertaining."- John Banville
"An extraordinary writer of great compassion . . . Stunning."- Denise Mina
In the aftermath of Brexit, the body of a young woman is found by the river Thames, and a neighbor, a retired teacher from Chapleton College, is arrested. An eccentric loner--intellectual, shy, a fastidious dresser with expensive tastes--he is the perfect candidate for a media monstering.
In custody he is interviewed by two detectives: the circumspect Ander, and his workaday foil, Gary. Ander is particularly watchful now, because the man across the table is someone he knows--someone he hasn't seen in nearly thirty years. Determined to salvage the truth as ex-pupils and colleagues line up against the accused, he must face a story from decades back, from his own time as a Chapleton student, at the peak of anti-Irish sentiment.
With the momentum of classic crime fiction,Throw Me to the Wolves follows two mysteries--one unfolding in the media-saturated present, and the other bubbling up from the abusive past of the 1980s English school system. Beautifully written and psychologically acute, it is a novel about memory and childhood, prescient and piercingly funny, as wise as it is tragic.
Product Information
General Fields
- :
- : Penguin Random House
- : Jonathan Cape
- : 0.446
- : 04 April 2019
- : 3.4 Centimeters X 14.7 Centimeters X 22.4 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Patrick McGuinness
- : Hardback
- : 1904
- : English
- : 823.92
- : 336