The Wasp Factory
The stunning and controversial literary debut novel
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4.1 • 208 Ratings
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- £5.49
Publisher Description
'One of the most brilliant first novels I have come across' Telegraph
'One of the top 100 novels of the century' Independent
'Brilliant...irresistible...compelling' New York Times
'Macabre, bizarre, and impossible to put down' Financial Times
'Read it if you dare' Daily Express
The Wasp Factory is a bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath - one of the most infamous of contemporary Scottish novels.
'Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and don't intend to ever again. It was just a stage I was going through.'
Enter - if you can bear it - the extraordinary private world of Frank, just sixteen, and unconventional, to say the least.
Customer Reviews
Dark story, beautifully written
A short book written in a beautiful way. The story lacks pace but is harrowing all the same. Worth a read.
Amazing
What a twist, brilliant!
Not what I expected
I only read this book as my husband kept raving about how good it was supposed to be. He had the paperback and I had the iBook version so we did it as a fun race....... I won!
I did enjoy reading the book although found it a bit of an easy read. The only thing that made me carry on to the end was the "twist" I read about and it lived up to the reviews. The twist was an extremely unexpected one..... Or which my husband thinks he has figured out but is so far off the mark I will giggle when he realises!!
Not a book I would tell everyone to read but glad I read it.