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The Truants
- Narrated by: Olivia Dowd
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Bloomsbury presents The Truants by Kate Weinberg, read by Olivia Dowd.
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?
Critic Reviews
"Set to be the book of the summer." (Town & Country)
"There are more than a few nods to Donna Tartt’s The Secret History here - the band of student misfits with dysfunctional backgrounds, the professor with oddly intimate student-teacher bonds, plus an overall sense, skilfully seeded by Weinberg, that things are about to take a wrong turn. Threaded into the story are references to Agatha Christie’s novels, with their mysteries and murders and love triangles. The Truants borrows some of these murder mystery tropes, leading us to a dark conclusion that feels satisfying to reach." (Evening Standard)
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- elizabeth b.
- 19-08-2020
Started off well
I did enjoy this especially at the start but it sort of went off as it progressed. The characters were interesting and the story idea interesting but faded into the background. Shame
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- Rosie
- 15-09-2020
Life is short, read something else.
Characters were uniformly loathsome. I can't understand how anyone would enjoy reading this. I kept waiting for something interesting to happen but it was just incoherent and unpleasant. The main character is insipid and annoying; the woman everyone is fixated on is transparently trying so hard to be cool and edgy that she comes off as pathetic. As for the men in this story... ick.
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