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‘One of the most brilliant first novels I have come across’ Telegraph
‘One of the top 100 novels of the century’ Independent
‘Brilliant…irresistible…compelling’ New York Times
‘Macabre, bizarre, and impossible to put down’ Financial Times
‘Read it if you dare’ Daily Express
The Wasp Factory is a bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath – one of the most infamous of contemporary Scottish novels.
‘Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different reasons than I’d disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. That’s my score to date. Three. I haven’t killed anybody for years, and don’t intend to ever again. It was just a stage I was going through.’
Enter – if you can bear it – the extraordinary private world of Frank, just sixteen, and unconventional, to say the least.
From the Publisher
ASIN : B002TXZSYO
Publisher : Abacus; 1st edition (4 Sept. 2008)
Language : English
File size : 2425 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
Print length : 194 pages
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