Throw Me to the Wolves

About this book

Compulsively readable.New York Times Book Review "A significant literary achievement that also happens to be a terrific page-turner."- Jonathan Lee "Elegantly written darkly entertaining."- John Banville "An extraordinary writer of great compassion . . . Stunning."- Denise Mina In the aftermath of Brexit the body of a young woman is found by the river Thames and a neighbor a retired teacher from Chapleton College is arrested. An eccentric lonerintellectual shy a fastidious dresser with expensive tasteshe is the perfect candidate for a media monstering. In custody he is interviewed by two detectives: the circumspect Ander and his workaday foil Gary. Ander is particularly watchful now because the man across the table is someone he knowssomeone he hasnt seen in nearly thirty years. Determined to salvage the truth as ex-pupils and colleagues line up against the accused he must face a story from decades back from his own time as a Chapleton student at the peak of anti-Irish sentiment. With the momentum of classic crime fiction Throw Me to the Wolves follows two mysteriesone unfolding in the media-saturated present and the other bubbling up from the abusive past of the 1980s English school system. Beautifully written and psychologically acute it is a novel about memory and childhood prescient and piercingly funny as wise as it is tragic.