Book description
Orph is a strange, silent, friendless young man. Emma meets him when
she comes to work at the children's home where he lives. She offers him
a room in her student flat. But there, amid the love affairs and
politics of university life, Orph's alienation only grows deeper, and
his lonely course has the most desperate of consequences. Compelling .
. . an admirable first novel Jane Rogers has written eight novels
including Her living Image (Somerset Maugham Award), Mr Wroe's Virgins
(Guardian Fiction Prize runner-up), Promised Lands (Writers Guild Best
Novel Award), Island (Orange long-listed), and The Voyage Home. She has
written drama for radio and TV, including an award-winning adaptation of
Mr Wroe's Virgins for BBC2. Her radio work includes both original drama
and Classic Serial adaptations. She has taught writing at the University
of Adelaide, Paris Sorbonne IV, and on a radio-writing project in
Eastern Uganda. She is Professor of Writing at Sheffield Hallam
University, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Jane
lives on the edge of the moors in Lancashire.
