Throw Me To The Wolves - Hardcover

McGuinness, Patrick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1787331466 ISBN 13: 9781787331464

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

A young woman has been murdered, and a neighbour, a retired teacher from Chapleton College, is arrested. An eccentric loner intellectual, shy, a fastidious dresser with expensive tastes he is the perfect candidate for a media monstering.In custody he is interviewed by two the smart-talking, quick-witted Gary, and his watchful colleague, Ander. Ander is always watchful, but particularly now, because the man across the table is his former teacher Michael Wolphram whom he hasnt seen in nearly 30 years.As the novel proceeds, we watch Wolphrams media lynching as ex-pupils and colleagues line up to lie about him. In parallel, we read Anders memories of his life as a young Dutch boy in 80s England. Another outsider, another loner in a school system rife with abuse and bullying, Ander has another case to the cold case of his own childhood.Though it deals with historical abuse and violence in schools, and the corrupt power of the popular media, Throw Me to the Wolves is mostly about childhood and memory. A perceptive and pertinent novel of our times, beautifully written and psychologically acute, it manages to be both very funny and at the same time shatteringly sad.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1787331466
• ISBN 13: 9781787331464
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336