A compelling, character driven thriller set on a breezeblock university campus, The Truants is a very modern coming-of-age tale. Incorporating issues of belonging and toxic friendships within a fast-moving, wire-taut narrative, Weinberg’s impressive debut carries echoes of The Secret History whilst very much retaining its own identity.
People disappear when they most want to be seen. Jess Walker, middle child of a middle class family, has perfected the art of vanishing in plain sight. But when she arrives at a concrete university campus under flat, grey, East Anglian skies, her world flares with colour. Drawn into a tightly-knit group of rule breakers - led by their maverick teacher, Lorna Clay - Jess begins to experiment with a new version of herself. But the dynamic between the friends begins to darken as they share secrets, lovers and finally a tragedy. Soon Jess is thrown up against the question she fears most: what is the true cost of an extraordinary life?
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781526600110
Number of pages: 352
Weight: 484 g
Dimensions: 216 x 135 mm
‘Truants’ is an interesting novel beginning at the start of a student’s life at an new university campus becoming involved in an complex love triangle & falling under the influence of an charismatic English... More
Kate starts of the story of a young girl starting university as she has an obsession with one of the lecturer's that teach at the school. it's a typical story line of drinking and what young people do but... More
I thoroughly enjoyed The Truants, an engrossing début of mystery and intrigue.
The book was narrated by Jess, looking back with hindsight over about six years or thereabouts to when she was an eighteen-year-old...
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