ARGONAUT BOOKS

Oliver is 18, and wants to enjoy himself before he goes to university. But this is the 1920s, and he lives in a small country town, where everyone knows what everyone else is up to, and where love and lust are closely followed by revenge. Reviews Golding didn't see why any confines should be placed on a writer's power of invention and he took this power to some extraordinary places. He is the great unbreakable wild horse of the 1960s British literary stable.Rose TremainA triumph of economy and pungent effect; a brilliant insight into the social rigidity of English p...Read More