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Harper
May 2011
On Sale: May 10, 2011
444 pages ISBN: 0061728276 EAN: 9780061728273 Hardcover
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Set in a four-hundred-year-old boys' boarding school in
London, a chilling gothic thriller by the author of the
critically acclaimed A Good and Happy Child . . . A fierce and jealous ghost . . . A young man's fight for his life . . . The Harrow School is home to privileged adolescents known
as much for their distinctive dress and traditions as for
their arrogance and schoolboy cruelty. Seventeen-year-old
American Andrew Taylor is enrolled in the esteemed British
institution by his father, who hopes that the school's
discipline will put some distance between his son and his
troubled past in the States. But trouble—and danger—seem to follow Andrew. When one of
his schoolmates and friends dies mysteriously of a severe
pulmonary illness, Andrew is blamed and is soon an
outcast, spurned by nearly all his peers. And there is the
pale, strange boy who begins to visit him at night. Either
Andrew is losing his mind, or the house legend about his
dormitory being haunted is true. When the school's poet-in-residence, Piers Fawkes, is
commissioned to write a play about Byron, one of Harrow's
most famous alumni, he casts Andrew in the title role.
Andrew begins to discover uncanny links between himself
and the renowned poet. In his loneliness and isolation,
Andrew becomes obsessed with Lord Byron's story and the
poet's status not only as a literary genius and infamous
seducer but as a student at the very different Harrow of
two centuries prior—a place rife with violence, squalor,
incurable diseases, and tormented love affairs. When frightening and tragic events from that long-ago past
start to recur in Harrow's present, and when the dark and
deadly specter by whom Andrew's been haunted seems to be
all too real, Andrew is forced to solve a two-hundred-year-
old literary mystery that threatens the lives of his
friends and his teachers—and, most terrifyingly, his own.
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