Imprint: Corgi Audio
Published: 02/10/2005
ISBN: 9780552153669
Length: 360 Minutes
Dimensions: 124mm x 24mm x 142mm
Weight: 210g
RRP: £17.99
The place is St Oswald's, an old and long-established boys' grammar school in the north of England. A new year has just begun, and for the staff and boys of the school, a wind of unwelcome change is blowing. Suits, paperwork and Information Technology rule the world and Roy Straitley, Latin master, eccentric, and veteran of St Oswald's, is finally - reluctantly - contemplating retirement. But beneath the little rivalries, petty disputes and everyday crises of the school, a darker undercurrent stirs. And a bitter grudge, hidden and carefully nurtured for thirteen years, is about to erupt.
Who is Mole, the mysterious insider, whose cruel practical jokes are gradually escalating towards violence - and perhaps, murder? And how can an old and half-forgotten scandal become the stone that brings down a giant?
Imprint: Corgi Audio
Published: 02/10/2005
ISBN: 9780552153669
Length: 360 Minutes
Dimensions: 124mm x 24mm x 142mm
Weight: 210g
RRP: £17.99
"[A] gripping psychological thriller... Harris is one of our most accomplished novelists and Gentlemen & Players, with its pace, wit and acute observation, shows her at the top of her form"
"[A] delicious black comedy ... the plot is so cleverly constructed, the tension so unflagging, you'd think she'd been writing thrillers all her life"
"With a lightness of touch, Harris illuminates just how resentment of privilege and exclusion can lead to violent resolutions... Marvellously mischievous"
"[A] clever story of obsession and revenge... Ms Harris has scored another success"
"A classic whodunnit with the characters carefully crafted and the tension at a knife edge"