The Bellwether Revivals
Author(s): Benjamin Wood
Bright, bookish Oscar Lowe has grown to love the quiet routine of his life as a care assistant at a Cambridge nursing home, until the fateful day when he is lured into King's College chapel by the otherworldly sound of an organ. There he meets and falls in love with Iris Bellwether and her privileged, eccentric clique, led by her brother Eden. A troubled but charismatic music prodigy, Eden convinces his sister and their friends to participate in a series of disturbing experiments. However, as the line between genius and madness begins to blur, Oscar fears that danger could await them all ...
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Shortlisted for Costa First Novel Award 2012.
Benjamin Wood was born in 1981 and grew up in north-west England. In 2004, he was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to attend the MFA Creative Writing Programme at the University of British Columbia, Canada, where he was also fiction editor of the Canadian literary journal PRISM International. Benjamin is now a lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London. The Bellwether Revivals is his first novel.
General Fields
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- : Simon & Schuster, Limited
- : Simon & Schuster, Limited
- : 0.308
- : November 2012
- : 198mm X 130mm
- : United Kingdom
- : March 2013
- : books
Special Fields
- : Benjamin Wood
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 823.92
- : 448