The deadly space between
By: Patricia Duncker
Publisher: [Bloomsbury Publishing]
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781408824238; 9781408812174
Subjects: Mothers and sons; Fiction; Single mothers; Women painters; Teenage boys; Scientists; Seduction; Internet; Fiction & related items
Description: Toby Hawk is a solitary boy in a family of Amazons. His mother, only fifteen years older than him, is a painter on the brink of commercial success. His great-aunt is a wealthy textile designer; her partner, Liberty, a barrister. Meanwhile, eighteen-year-old Toby's world remains a small, closed round of school, domesticity and surfing the Net at night. But everything changes when his mother takes up with a fascinating but enigmatic scientist, Roehm. Patricia Duncker's gripping novel is a disturbing tale of Oedipal passion. It is also an eerie psychological ghost story in the European tradition, whose sources - Freud, Faust and Frankenstein - haunt the pages.