High Towers

by Ralph Britton, Marianne Ferrero (Illustrator)

Peter is eleven and has got a coveted place at Hillside Grammar School. Bewildered by a harsh new environment, he needs to escape being bullied. He tries fighting back, getting on the right side of his tormentors and, most successfully, exploiting his talent for climbing to make himself noticed. The twin towers on his school building give him a chance to impress the boys, but popularity comes with a price higher than he realizes. In the end he has to climb higher than he intended and deal with a savage outburst of violence that he has helped to provoke. This short novel is set in England in the 1950s and is intended for adults or older teenagers.

75 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 10, 2013

About the author

I took an English degree at Fitzwilliam, Cambridge and a Phd at the University of Kent. I then taught at the University of Otago in New Zealand for six years, before coming back to the UK and getting a job at Bolton School, where I stayed until I retired.
I have published three books on Kindle, High Towers, The Labyrinth and Murder at Oxford 1642. Click on each book for a brief description.