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The Night Climbers Hardcover - 2007

by Ivo Stourton


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Reminiscent of Donna Tartt, a circle of friends at Cambridge form a private club that scales the university colleges by night, until one day they take their daredevil activities one step too far . . .James, a first-year student at Cambridge, is overwhelmed by the thrill of opportunity and startled by his own hunger for friendship. He finds himself seduced by a covert and exclusive circle of friends - the 'Tudor Night Climbers' - who scale the university's turrets after dark, transforming it into a dangerous playground of spiralling heights. When still only a novice member of his tribe, James begins to fall for the only female in the group, the enigmatic and beautiful Jessica, and is soon at the heart of a fatal love triangle with the reckless and charismatic leader of the group, Francis. When a volatile relationship finally explodes, the Night Climbers' funding suddenly dries up, until Francis dreams up a heist that will secure them millions, but will also test their very souls. Partly inspired by the original 'Night Climbers' of the Sixties who famously made dare-devil leaps from college roofs, this passionate exploration of youth at its most vital and unstable marks the debut of a strikingly gifted new writer.

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When James Walker arrives at Tudor College, Cambridge, he tries to create a vague air of mystery about himself in the hope of making the right kind of friends. By accident or fate he encounters a member of the Night Climbers, a wealthy, secretive, and tantalizingly eccentric circle of undergraduates who scale the college towers and gargoyles at night in pursuit of the kind of thrill-seeking danger that makes them feel truly alive.

Seduced by their reckless charisma and talent for decadence, James falls for both Francis, the group's ringleader, and Jessica, his beautiful best friend. Their extravagant living is financed, unwittingly, by Francis's father, but when he suddenly cuts his son off, the friends are left floundering as they try to maintain a lifestyle they can't afford. That is, until Francis embroils them in a plan that will test the limits of their friendship and link them to one another forever.

Humming with intellectual energy and grace, "The Night Climbers" portrays the intensity of early relationships, when people are at their most impressionable, and explores the ties that bind with a keen eye.

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  • Title The Night Climbers
  • Author Ivo Stourton
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 328
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon Spotlight Entertainment, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date September 18, 2007
  • ISBN 9781416948698 / 1416948694
  • Weight 1.33 lbs (0.60 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.46 x 1.1 in (23.37 x 16.41 x 2.79 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects College students, Children of the rich
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007007944
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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