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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Canongate Books

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9781847672384

RRP: £9.99

PAGES: 240

PUBLICATION DATE:
April 3, 2008

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The Changeling

Andrew Marr

Thirteen-year-old Tom Curdie, the product of a Glasgow slum, is on probation for theft. His teachers admit that he is clever, but only one, Charles Forbes, sees an uncanny warmth in his reticence and in his seemingly insolent smile. So he decides to take Tom on holiday with his own family …This powerful novel explores one of Jenkins’ consistent and most fruitful themes – how goodness and innocence is compromised when faced with the pressures of growing up and becoming part of society.

Reviews of The Changeling

'If you are interested in books that are human and wise, then treat yourself this year to some Robin Jenkins.' Andrew Marr

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Robin Jenkins

Robin Jenkins wrote a number of landmark novels including The Cone-Gatherers, Happy for the Child, The Thistle and the Grail and Guests of War. One of Scotland’s greatest writers, the themes of good and evil, of innocence lost, of fraudulence, cruelty and redemption shine through his work. His novels, filled with ambiguity, are rarely about what they seem. He published his first book, So Gaily Sings the Lark, at the age of thirty-eight, and by the time of his death in 2005, over thirty of his novels were in print.