Black Chalk
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One game. Six students. Five survivors.
It was only ever meant to be a game.
A game of consequences, of silly forfeits, childish dares. A game to be played by six best friends in their first year at Oxford University. But then the game changed: the stakes grew higher and the dares more personal, more humiliating, finally evolving into a vicious struggle with unpredictable and tragic results.
Now, fourteen years later, the remaining players must meet again for the final round.
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One game. Six students. Five survivors.
It was only ever meant to be a game.
A game of consequences, of silly forfeits, childish dares. A game to be played by six best friends in their first year at Oxford University. But then the game changed: the stakes grew higher and the dares more personal, more humiliating, finally evolving into a vicious struggle with unpredictable and tragic results.
Now, fourteen years later, the remaining players must meet again for the final round.
Title: Black Chalk
Author: J. Yates, Christopher
ISBN: 9780099581628
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Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication Date: 2014-09-18
Number of Pages: 352
Weight: 0.3675 kg
An inventive and intricate psychological puzzle thriller that mystifies, torments, disturbs, beguiles... a powerfully intelligent debut -- Marcel Berlins * The Times *
A compulsive page-turner that will hold your attention until the very last word -- Natasha Harding * Sun *
Sinister, addictive and unpredictable - this is a novel to be devoured greedily, at speed, but one that will leave its footprint on your memory for far longer -- Natasha Lunn * Red *
Yates's take on the collegiate thriller lives up to early comparisons to Donna Tartt's The Secret History... filled with gleeful malevolence * Grazia *
[A] chilling debut...this is a thriller, a cautionary tale and a sobering exploration of unintended consequences rolled into one * Daily Mail *
Black Chalk grabs from the get-go... Yates plots with tantalizing skill -- Ellen Shapiro * People *
This addictive psychological thriller will have you hooked from start to game over * Stylist *
Compelling -- John O'Connell * Guardian *
A truly chilling thriller, with campus-fun-gone-wrong echoes of Donna Tartt's The Secret History * Psychologies *
A very exciting debut - like The Secret History, but so much creepier... This is intellectually challenging psychological thriller writing at a high level * Shots Mag *
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