The Truants

by Kate Weinberg (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2019

  $3.36

  A seductive coming-of-age debut about obsession, rivalry and deceit on an east Anglian university campus, for readers of Conversations with Friends and The Secret History 'Where do I find Crime?' 'Crime doesn't have its own section,' said the librarian without looking up. 'It's all under fiction.' Eighteen-year-old Jess Walker heads to university to be taught by Dr Lorna Clay, a brilliant and enigmatic literature professor. She can't believe her luck when she ends up in Lorna's Agatha Christie seminar in her first term, and more so when Lorna begins to take evident interest in her. In a matter of months she falls in love with Alec, a mysterious journalist-in-exile, and slowly, Lorna herself. As Jess' experience of infatuation and betrayal gives way to a breathless search for the truth, she finds herself detective in a twisted crime of the heart, and an unwitting part of a toxic love triangle. Starting out under the flat grey skies of an east Anglian university campus and ending up on an idyllic Mediterranean island, The Truants is an enthralling debut about the nature of deceit and the depths to which obsession can drive us.