num_pages: 184
description: Frank - no ordinary sixteen-year-old - lives with his father outside a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Frank has turned to strange acts of violence to vent his frustrations. In the bizarre daily rituals there is some solace. But when news comes of Eric's escape from the hospital Frank has to prepare the ground for his brother's inevitable return - an event that explodes the mysteries of the past and changes Frank utterly.
language: English
title: The Wasp Factory
titlecomplete: The Wasp Factory
characters: Eric Cauldhame, Frank Cauldhame, Angus Cauldhame, Mrs Clamp, Diggs
genres: Classics, Dark, Mystery, Novels, Scotland, Thriller, Literature, Contemporary, Fiction, Horror
ratings_count: 93781
places: Scotland
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis
category: Foreign Novel
publisher: Abacus