The characters are what makes this book much more than a story about a teacher and the strange affection which grows between Matt Kreasey and his teenage student, Amy, when confronted by a class of students who torment their every hour, reduce Matt to a paranoid and make love difficult to survive between teacher and student.
The students take a sensitive teacher apart like a pack of wolves. When you expect Matt would be reduced to hatred, there is still just a glimmer of his tenderness for one - Amy.
Will Matt survive - not so much the knife or the collective beating - but his demons and, most of all, his one chance of love ?
" As a former London teacher, Raymond Nickford has nailed the teacher's fear of the 'Lord of the Flies' pack mentality perfectly. And what a cliffhanger ! "
Marsha Moore - author of The Hating Game.
" This is a moving character-driven story of a simple love trying to blossom when hemmed in on so many sides by the ever-present threat of teacher Matt Kreasey's malcontent back-street students who daily grow more resentful of the all too sensitive man who dares to teach them poetry. They seem to be intent on sharpening the instrument by which they can make him their next teacher casualty.
There's the bridging between older man, (teacher, Matt) and a younger woman (his teenage student, Amy) who nevertheless might just be the only salvation Matt has from those who are conspiring to harm him.
But then there's the further tension that the difference in social background provides to challenge the attraction between Matt and Amy, for Amy also seems at times to be rather too closely aligned for Matt's comfort to some of the roughnecks in the notorious classroom 12D.
Class divides and rags to riches themes have already been done brilliantly - but to death - by other authors such as Catherine Cookson, yet while Mister Kreasey's Demon also has elements of these ever present themes, to me it stands out for its unforgettable observation of character. "
- Bernard Forrest
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Título : Mister Kreasey's Demon
EAN : 9780954696375
Editorial : Raymond Nickford
Fecha de publicación
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Formato : ePub
Tamaño del archivo : 456.4 kb
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