Act of Darkness - Softcover

Francis King

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671506277 ISBN 13: 9780671506278

Publisher: Pocket, 1985

Synopsis

The mysterious murder of a six-year-old English boy in 1930s India destroys the relationship between his parents and stepsister

About this title

About the Author:

Born in Switzerland, Francis King spent his childhood in India, where his father was a government official. While still an undergraduate at Oxford he published his first three novels. He then joined the British Council, working in Italy, Greece, Egypt, Finland and Japan, before he resigned to devote himself entirely to writing. For some years he was drama critic for the Sunday Telegraph and he reviewed fiction regularly for the Spectator. He won the Somerset Maugham Prize, the Katherine Mansfield Prize and the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year Award for Act of Darkness (1983). His penultimate book, The Nick of Time, was long-listed for the 2003 Man Booker Prize. Francis King died in 2011.

"One of our great writers, of the calibre of Graham Greene and Nabokov." Beryl Bainbridge

Review:

'So beautifully written that one is reluctant to reveal who is murdered, let alone who dunnit ... brilliantly successful' Auberon Waugh 'A master novelist' Melvyn Bragg 'Will not fail to impress' Graham Swift '[has] an emotional charge and breadth of vision which place it in the forefront of this year's novels' Harriet Waugh 'Unputdownable' Paul Bailey

About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0671506277
• ISBN 13: 9780671506278
• Binding: Paperback