The Godless Boys by Naomi Wood

The Godless Boys by Naomi Wood

The Godless Boys is the astounding literary debut of Naomi Wood, author of Mrs. Hemingway. Imagine an alternative England, where the Church controls the country and non-believers have been exiled to a remote island. On the Island, a fierce group of boys patrols the community, searching for signs of faith and punishing any believers. When a new girl appears, arriving from the mainland to search for her long-lost mother, the gang is split: one boy falls in love with her, another seeks violent revenge. The struggle between them will change everything.

Vibrant and evocative* Stylist *
The comforts of faith, the terrors of extremism, the loneliness of not believing anything at all: these are the aggressively modern tensions that pierce Wood's novel . . . richly conceived. * Metro *
A gripping, well-crafted tale . . . impressive. * Observer *
A tender, brutal tale focusing on God, love and violence. * Grazia *

Naomi Wood is the bestselling author of The Godless Boys (Picador, 2011) and the award-winning Mrs. Hemingway(Picador, 2014), which won the British Library Writer’s Award and the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Award. It was shortlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club. Her work is available in sixteen languages. She teaches at the University of East Anglia and lives in Norwich with her family. The Hiding Game is her third novel.

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ISBN 13	9781447293132
ISBN 10	1447293134
Title	The Godless Boys
Author	Naomi Wood
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pan Macmillan
Year published	2015-01-01
Number of pages	368
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