ARGONAUT BOOKS

Todd, Randy, and Carter are teenagers, grammar school boys who come across a younger boy while roaming the countryside around their commuter town. They decide to hold him hostage in a small cave in an abandoned quarry and then consider what to do next. In 'Lord of the Flies', William Golding needed a plane crash and a tropical island to bring out the capacity for violence and evil in his English schoolboys. Jane White, a mother and housewife living in Godalming when she wrote 'Quarry', needed only a chance encounter in fields not unlike those around her own development. 'Quarry' is among the m...Read More