Fielding Gray

Fielding Gray is groping his way towards manhood. Golden toy of his public school, potential Cambridge scholar, he seems all set for the easy accolades of upper-class society. In his last summer holiday from school, he has his first urgent, fevered sexual encounters with girls. He loses his innocence by degrees with the teasing Angela Tuck in games of strip poker ... with fearful Dixie in a fairground Ghost Train ... and, finally, with a coldly efficient prostitute in a little room with a big bed. But 17 year old Fielding is himself a corrupter. His careless debauchment of a younger schoolfellow leads to a sexual tragedy of uncontrollable proportions and Fielding's future begins to look much less rosy ... Simon Raven in this novel displays to the full his unrivalled talents as a chronicler of corruption in high places. By the bestselling author of The Judas Boy