Throw Me to the Wolves
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.
- Author
- Patrick McGuinness
- Format
- hardcover
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781620401514
- Genres
- mystery, fiction, thriller, crime, contemporary
- Release date
- 2019
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