Alec is a South African journalist (can’t say more as it will spoil the story) Georgie is in the same year and on the same course as Jess. Jess is entranced by the embodiment of a great thinker. Lorna Clay is Jess’s uni tutor and a maverick who defies the establishment. Like coming of age novels, it is told retrospectively, in this case 6 years after the event. The Truants follows Jess’s time at uni and the impact the four have on her life. Jess is in love with each of these characters in different ways. She gravitates towards four characters who are doing just that and breaking the rules: Lorna, Alec, Georgie, Nick. At 19 years old and off to university, Jess is ordinary but wants to be extraordinary. The Truants is a coming-of-age and campus novel narrated by protagonist Jess Walker. I wish I could I leave it there as I really don’t think this review will do the novel justice. I hope, however, that it will explain why I chose these three words. If I were to sum up The Truants by Kate Weinberg in three words, I’d say: hypnotic, mesmerising, brilliant. Soon Jess is thrown up against the question she fears most: what is the true cost of an extraordinary life? ~ My thoughts ~ 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.

Jess Walker, middle child of a middle-class family, has perfected the art of vanishing in plain sight. People disappear when they most want to be seen My thanks to Anne Cater at Random Things Tours for inviting me to take part in the blog tour and to Bloomsbury Publishing for sending me a paperback copy of the book in return for my honest review.īefore I share my thoughts with you, here is what The Truants is about.

I am thrilled to be sharing my review of The Truants by Kate Weinberg with you today.

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