The Pale Companion
by:
Andrew Motion (author)
ISBN:
9780670822874 (0670822876)
Edition language: English
A boys' public school in the '60s, full of stereotypes and cliches. The dying/dead twin of the main protagonist doesn’t arouse as much sympathy as she should because it all seems too impersonal and theatrical. Oddly unpoetic for a novel by a poet!