Book description
A place of pressure and contradictions, St Ebury is an exclusive
boarding school for the children of Canada's elite, where boys must
act as men while navigating their adolescence.
One of only a handful of girls at the school, Fall is the most
beautiful. Noel, a clever, ghostly loner, watches her, certain that
one day Fall will come to know him deeply. But like everyone else, she
is drawn to Julius, the confident and magnetic son of the American
ambassador to Canada. They fall in love and Noel keeps watching.
In their final year, the boys room together and as Julius grows
closer to Fall, Noel's enthusiasm for their relationship shades into
something darker as he imagines himself as a confidante to Julius,
sensing that the time has come for him to enter Fall's life forever.
Colin McAdam lives in Montreal. His first novel,
Some Great Thing
, was published in 2004.
