*** Shortlisted for the Deanston Scottish Crime Book of the Year Award 2014 ***
When you open up, who will you let in?
Alex Morris has lost everything:her relationship, her career and her faith in the future. Moving to Edinburgh to escape her demons, Alex takes a job teaching at a Pupil Referral Unit. It's a place for kids whose behaviour is so extreme that they cannot be taught in a normal classroom. Alex is fragile with grief and way out of her depth.
Her fourth-year students are troubled and violent. In desperation to reach them, Alex turns to the stories she knows best. Greek tragedy isn't the most obvious way to win over such damaged children, yet these tales of fate, family and vengeance speak directly to them.
Enthralled by the bloodthirsty justice of the ancient world, the teenagers begin to weave the threads of their own tragedy - one that Alex watches, helpless to prevent.
Publisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 9781782392781
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 223 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 19 mm
Edition: Main
Published with an endorsement on the cover from S J Watson, The Amber Fury is being billed as a 'thriller' and a 'page-turner'. This seems to me to be an example of what happens when the marketing... More
A sharply written, powerful novel about revenge and obsession. Told from the point of view of a teacher whose fiance has been murdered and the diary entries and letters of her obsessive student, this is a gripping... More
"The Amber Fury" first novel from Natalie Haynes. A very different read from what I expected when I looked at the cover. A well crafted story of Alex, a qualified but inexperienced teacher who really wants... More
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