Stand by Me meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in this powerful debut
The Fell by Robert Jenkins
“a contemporary Steinbeck, Salinger or William Golding…”
“perhaps Ulysses meets Lord of the Flies…”
“The beginning blew me away –I loved the voice, the style, the details, the insights, the commentary on the human condition without being preachy, the cinematic quality, the pace, the characters, the humour, the poignancy, the tough reality – so much! “
“a contemporary Steinbeck, Salinger or William Golding…”
“The beginning blew me away –I loved the voice, the style, the details, the insights, the commentary on the human condition without being preachy, the cinematic quality, the capturing of childhood memory and viewpoint, the pace, the characters, the humour, the poignancy, the tough reality – so much!
At times I felt I was reading a savage Harry Potter or a new Laura Solomon, a contemporary Steinbeck, Salinger or William Golding. The humour, the exploration of young male friendship and adolescence, the evocation of abandoned children are all well done. The writing is amazing…. “
The Fell: best ever rejection letter from the fiction editor of an international top five publishing house…
“it will rank alongside the likes of The Catcher in the Rye and Lord of the Flies. Actually, for readers today, this will eclipse them…”
The Fell is something, and I don’t think we have had this kind of something for a long time. It’s wonderful in the fullest sense of the word. It feels like it’s 1975 and Punk is arriving all over again. So buckle in, read it, rejoice in it, and buy a couple of copies… the fun police are sure to call and burn one of them!” Scoop Review of Books.
“perhaps Ulysses meets Lord of the Flies…”
“I hope this book finds its audience… perhaps Ulysses meets Lord of the Flies…
“The Fell” is Feallan House, a residential school for boys with troubled backgrounds… where the inmates do indeed seem to be running the asylum. But don’t expect linear narration. There are intense bondings with the people who cross his path, most of them other boys; there is virtuosic wordplay; there are some paragraphs — filled with verbal trickery — that run for several screens on my Kindle; but at least these latter do contain punctuation. (Speaking of punctuation, the author points out that it has nothing to do with being on time.)
It’s like no other ARC (Advanced Reader Copy) I’ve read so far. I recommend that you read this book, and I urge you to open your mind up as wide as possible — or, maybe if you’re a very destination-oriented reader, give it a pass. But know that you’ll be missing out. “ Goodreads Reviewer.
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Sunday Times Best Selling Author writing on Authors Electric calls The Fell “a Masterpiece” ….
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