Andrew Waggoner has always hung around with the losers in his school, desperately hoping each day that the school bullies -- led by Drake -- will pass by him in search of other prey. But one day they force him into the woods, and the bullying escalates into something more; something unforgivable; something unthinkable. Broken, both physically and emotionally, something dies in Waggoner, and something else is born in its place. In the hills of the West Country a chalk horse stands vigil over a site of ancient power, and there Waggoner finds in himself a reflection of rage and vengeance, a power and persona to topple those who would bring him low. Paul Cornell plumbs the depths of magic and despair in this brutal exploration of bullying in Margaret Thatcher's England.
- ISBN10 0765390957
- ISBN13 9780765390950
- Publish Date 21 March 2017
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 16 August 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Starscape
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 260
- Language English