Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, this tale is linked in its poignancy and humour to "Lord the the Flies". This edition is part of a series of pre- and post-1914 works chosen especially for 14-18 year olds. The series features fiction, anthologies, poetry, plays and non-fiction.

Autorentext
Susan Hill, geboren 1942 in Yorkshire, ist eine der bekanntesten Autorinnen Englands. Nach zahlreichen literarischen Romanen, Novellen und Jugendbüchern begeistert sie mit der Kriminalserie um Simon Serrailler derzeit eine riesige Fangemeinde. Susan Hill lebt mit ihrer Familie in einem Landhaus in Gloucestershire.

Zusammenfassung

"Hooper had known, from the very first moment he had looked into Kingshaw’s face, that it would all be easy, that he would always be able to make him afraid.”

This tragic tale of two isolated children explores the nature of cruelty and the power of evil.

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