Set over a long weekend in East Anglia, Blake Morrison's new novel is the chilling story of a rivalrous friendship - as told with deceptive casualness by the narrator, Ian. It opens with a surprise phone call from an old university friend, inviting I
英国某高中,身形肥胖、长相平平的达伦•马莱特(Calvin Dean 饰)自杀身亡。他的死并未在学校内引起太大波澜,欺负过他的坏孩子们继续寻欢作乐,载歌载舞;如学生会会长贾斯汀•菲尔丁(Tuppence Middleton 饰)这样美貌和学业俱佳的优等生则关心人际的改善和爱情的到来。学校中,似乎只有马莱特的好友詹森•班克斯(Olly Alexander 饰)真心为朋友难过。 在随后的派对上,这群高中生们尽情取乐。正当他们忘乎所以的时候,他们不约而同收到了来自马莱特手机发送的恐吓短信。当晚,一名学
Eleven-year-old David Wiseman is mad about cricket but no good at it. He has the entire kit but none of the skill, and he's a laughingstock at school. So when a Jamaican family moves in next door and builds a cricket net in the back garden, David is