James Scudamore crea romanzi avvincenti che approfondiscono le complessità della psiche umana e delle relazioni. Le sue opere sono caratterizzate da una profonda introspezione e uno stile coinvolgente che attira i lettori nella vita interiore dei suoi personaggi. Scudamore svela magistralmente gli aspetti più oscuri della natura umana, trovando al contempo bellezza in luoghi inaspettati. La sua scrittura è contraddistinta da una forte voce narrativa e dalla capacità di creare storie indimenticabili.
Imagine Edward St Aubyn writing The Secret History and you'll get an idea of how exquisite and compelling this story about male friendship and betrayal is' Alex Preston, Observer - Fiction to Look Out for in 2020 When ten-year-old Max is sent to boarding school, his idyllic childhood comes to an abrupt end.
Anti, a quiet English boy living in Quito, Ecuador, strikes up a friendship with flamboyant classmate Fabian, who is everything Anti isn't: handsome, athletic and popular.
As a child Ludo is plucked out of the shantytown where he was born and transported to a world of languid, cosseted luxury.
Three solitary characters remember their shared past in a sprawling, derelict psychiatric hospital on the English coast: a turbulent summer in the aftermath of the hospital's closure that culminated in a shocking, life-altering accident.
Anthony wäre gern wie sein Freund Fabián: gut aussehend, sportlich, beliebt. Fabián lebt bei seinem exzentrischen Onkel Suarez, der Geschichten liebt. Die Jungen lassen sich von seiner Fabulierkunst anstecken, nur über den Verbleib von Fabiáns Eltern reden sie nicht. Als Anthony langsam hinter das Geheimnis kommt, versucht er Fabián mit einer unglaublichen Story zu trösten: Dessen Mutter befinde sich in einer Klinik an der ecuadorianischen Küste, in der Menschen mit Gedächtnisverlust behandelt werden. Fabián glaubt ihm - und so beginnt eine abenteuerliche Reise ...