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A twisted love story set in an elite boarding school that is as darkly compelling as it is subtle and profound.

About the Author

Colin McAdam lives in Montreal. His first novel, Some Great Thing, was published in 2004.

Reviews

A sensitive, honest and horrifying portrait of everyday life in an elite, expensive boarding school
*Guardian*

The intensity of the passions depicted in the novel is not so much matched by the writing itself as generated by it... In it we experience, like a new discovery, the appalling kinship between uncontrollable love and equally uncontrollable lovelessness
*Times Literary Supplement*

Experimental and certainly ambitious
*Big Issue*

A sensitive, honest and horrifying portrait of everyday life in an elite, expensive boarding school -- Josh Lacey * Guardian *
The intensity of the passions depicted in the novel is not so much matched by the writing itself as generated by it... In it we experience, like a new discovery, the appalling kinship between uncontrollable love and equally uncontrollable lovelessness -- Paul Binding * Times Literary Supplement *
Experimental and certainly ambitious -- Doug Johnstone * Big Issue *