The Wishing Game by Patrick Redmond

The Wishing Game by Patrick Redmond

Something terrible happened at Kirkston Abbey school for boys during the bleak winter term of 1954. Now, more than forty years later, journalist Tim Webber is determined to find out the truth. He uncovers a disturbing tale of a seemingly innocuous friendship between two fourteen-year-old boys who embark on a series of psychological power games which escalate with increasingly unnatural and sinister results.

Redmond's teenage characters are well drawn, and the small universe of the school becomes a real emotional landscape, where the pupils are credited with passionate and complex emotion - Independent on Sunday

The setting is genuinely chilling, and the atmosphere of menace and sterility riveting; - Daily Express

Well-crafted and thought-provoking. . Redmond shows himself to be a scrupulously fair writer who refuses to stereotype his characters and views human behaviour with a high degree of compassion - Financial Times

Well-paced and suspenseful - Gay Times

This impressive first novel powerfully evokes the terrible effects of cruelty and bullying, whether by an adult or another child, and the unravelling nightmare is sustained with suspense and pace - Sunday Mirror

Such is the hard-edged skill of Redmond's writing that the carefully structured revelations about the past have a bitter and compelling power - TLS

Patrick Redmond's chilling debut novel is a first-rate page-turner - Daily Mirror

The setting is genuinely chilling, and the atmosphere of menace and sterility riveting - Daily Express

Born in 1966, Patrick Redmond was educated in England and the Channel Islands, and studied law at Leicester University and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. For the past eight years he has worked as a solicitor at various firms in the City, specialising in international law. THE WISHING GAME is his first novel.

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ISBN 13	9780340748183
ISBN 10	0340748184
Title	The Wishing Game
Author	Patrick Redmond
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Hodder & Stoughton
Year published	2000-04-06
Number of pages	412
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