who subjects him to endless petty cruelties for daring to step above his station
gut-wrenching and brilliantly researched depiction of a 'small war' with devastating consequences
disguises himself as a Gold and infiltrates their society
the villagers know that to escape the cruel and unusual tortures planned for them
Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else
Afterlife Allan Mallinson who subjects him to endlessThe seventies. Summer. Four students in a cottage in the middle of nowhere. Two young American women, one hell bent on destruction. Alcohol, LSD, sex, jealousy, infidelity and poetry. At the end of the summer, one of the four students will be dead, and another will be destroyed by his inability to let go of past memories, guilt and bitterness.