The Wasp Factory
By Iain Banks
Harry Hartog's review
We follow 16 yr old Frank Cauldhame who mentions to the reader that he has been a serial killer in the past at just 10 years of age but that he is "better now" This novel is very dark, but a very interesting insight on nurture/nature and gender. Though this story has a lot of violence, it isn't gratuitous and the ending will change your perception completely. - Adrian, Harry Hartog Penrith
Description
'Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and don't intend to ever again. It was just a stage I was going through.'
Enter - if you can bear it - the extraordinary private world of Frank, just sixteen, and unconventional, to say the least.
- ISBN:
- 9780349139180
- Format:
- Paperback / softback
- Pages:
- 256
- Published:
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint:
- Abacus
- Weight:
- 206 g