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  • Published: 1 June 2010
  • ISBN: 9780099535461
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $27.99

Fall




A twisted love story set in an elite boarding school that is as darkly compelling as it is subtle and profound.

A place of pressure and contradictions, St Ebury is an exclusive boarding school for the children of Canada's elite, where boys must act as men while navigating their adolescence.

One of only a handful of girls at the school, Fall is the most beautiful. Noel, a clever, ghostly loner, watches her, certain that one day Fall will come to know him deeply. But like everyone else, she is drawn to Julius, the confident and magnetic son of the American ambassador to Canada. They fall in love and Noel keeps watching.

In their final year, the boys room together and as Julius grows closer to Fall, Noel's enthusiasm for their relationship shades into something darker as he imagines himself as a confidante to Julius, sensing that the time has come for him to enter Fall's life forever.

  • Published: 1 June 2010
  • ISBN: 9780099535461
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $27.99

About the author

Colin McAdam

Colin McAdam is a Canadian who grew up in Hong Kong, Denmark, England and Canada. After completing a doctorate in England, he moved to Sydney, Australia, where he now lives.

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Praise for Fall

A sensitive, honest and horrifying portrait of everyday life in an elite, expensive boarding school

Josh Lacey, Guardian

Experimental and certainly ambitious

Doug Johnstone, Big Issue

The intensity of the passions depicted in the novel is not so much matched by the writing itself as generated by it... In it we experience, like a new discovery, the appalling kinship between uncontrollable love and equally uncontrollable lovelessness

Paul Binding, Times Literary Supplement