by PatriciaDuncker (Author)
Toby Hawk is a solitary boy in a family of Amazons. His mother, only fifteen years older than him, is a painter on the brink of commercial success. His great-aunt is a wealthy textile designer; her partner, Liberty, a barrister. Meanwhile, eighteen-year-old Toby's world remains a small, closed round of school, domesticity and surfing the Net at night. But everything changes when his mother takes up with a fascinating but enigmatic scientist, Roehm. Patricia Duncker's gripping novel is a disturbing tale of Oedipal passion. It is also an eerie psychological ghost story in the European tradition, whose sources - Freud, Faust and Frankenstein - haunt the pages.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 18 Jul 2011
ISBN 10: 1408812177
ISBN 13: 9781408812174
Book Overview: Repackaged to coincide with the pbk publication of The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge