6/6/2023 0 Comments The Truants by Kate Weinberg![]() ![]() If you look up this book online, you are going to see this tagline: The Secret History meets Agatha Christie. And in that way that makes what you see, what you feel, so raw and right and fragile that you worry, if you shift too much in your seat or go to the bathroom, you’ll break it, whatever it is.’ ‘But mainly we just talked, in a way I never really had with someone older than me, maybe not really with anyone before. Soon Jess is thrown up against the question she fears most: what is the true cost of an extraordinary life? But the dynamic between the friends begins to darken as they share secrets, lovers and finally a tragedy. But when she arrives at a concrete university campus under flat, grey, East Anglian skies, her world flares with colour.ĭrawn 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. Jess Walker, middle child of a middle class family, has perfected the art of vanishing in plain sight. People disappear when they most want to be seen. ![]()
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