![]() ![]() ![]() I haven’t killed anybody for years, and don’t intend to ever again. Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I’d disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. Animals are not the only things Frank kills though… Frank is rather fond of catching the local wildlife, and killing it to display on his totemic poles. Right from the off, you know you’re in for something different with Frank, a rather feral teenager who lives on an island with his abandoned father. ![]() I already knew something was going to happen the Factory told me. I had been making the rounds of the Sacrifice Poles the day we heard my brother had escaped. The monochrome cover with its squared symbols and numerals, and the embossed title and author name really stood out then, and does now.īanks has always been brilliant at beginnings, and the first lines of his first novel are cracking. I read it again back then too, and I still have my original paperback. Published in 1984, I read it for the first time in 1985 when the paperback first came out. But better late than never, I have returned to the beginning and re-read The Wasp Factory again, and updated my BanksRead page. ![]() Distractions! I had hoped to read or re-read more Banks books by now. ![]()
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