![]() ![]() ![]() As Jess’ experience of infatuation and betrayal, disappearance and loss gives way to a breathless search for the truth, she finds herself detective in a twisted crime of the heart. Starting out under the flat grey skies of an East Anglian University campus and ending up on an idyllic Mediterranean island, The Truants is about a group of clever and eccentric misfits who yearn to break the rules. One, Alec, a journalist in exile, the other, Lorna, a charismatic literature professor. In this seductive coming-of-age debut, Jess Walker, a young and uninitiated first year student, falls in love with two great story-tellers. ![]() Soon Jess is thrown up against the question she fears most: what is the true cost of an extraordinary life? But the dynamic between the friends begins to darken as they share secrets, lovers and finally a tragedy. But when she arrives at a concrete university campus under flat, grey, East Anglian skies, her world flares with colour.ĭrawn into a tightly-knit group of rule breakers – led by their maverick teacher, Lorna Clay – Jess begins to experiment with a new version of herself. #TheTruants Walker, middle child of a middle-class family, has perfected the art of vanishing in plain sight. ![]()
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