The Swimming of the Deer

<p>'A strange yet strangely believable world.' TIM PEARS</p><p>A haunting rites of passage story.</p><p>A Queer fable with a generous gothic heart. </p><p>England 1956. In a small rural community on the brink of change a schoolboy is at war with his own body. What will it take to fulfil his misbegotten destiny?</p><p>Guiding his hollowed-out mother towards the idea of happiness? Victory in the Scramble a brutal ‘chariot race’ a metaphor for the futility of existence and the youth’s best chance of knowing who he can be?</p><p>How will it end? Under the famished eye of the narrator for whom the young Davy James is already the focus of forbidden desire.</p>