Erringby

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Kit is waiting expectantly for life to begin. Orphaned as a young child he recoils from his adoptive parents' mundane existence drawn instead to the bohemian world of his Uncle Col and Col's charismatic wife Marianne. Amid the permissive atmosphere of Erringby Marianne's rambling family mansion Kit becomes increasingly obsessed with his aunt. One debauched summer the eighteen-year-old Kit wakes to find himself in bed with Marianne. But what happened? And who is his sudden mysterious benefactor?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As Kit grapples with the ramifications of that night he Marianne and Col find their lives spiralling out of control. Unfolding against the changing cultural landscape of the seventies eighties and nineties </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Erringby </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is a captivating coming-of-age novel with echoes of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Great Expectations.</em></p>