The Night Climbers - Softcover

Stourton, Ivo

3.01

401 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 038561134X ISBN 13: 9780385611343

Publisher: Doubleday, 2007

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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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Review:

'A fast-paced novel with a gripping plot.' -- Books Quarterly

'An amazingly accomplished debut... the writing is elegant, the
story decadent.' -- Observer

'If your taste favours Welsh, Irvine, over Waugh, Evelyn, we've
already lost you. But you'd be missing something because Stourton really
can write.' -- The Independent

Lapped up THE SECRET HISTORY? Then this one's for you. -- Independent on Sunday

`Stourton's prose is elegant... [with] some genuinely penetrating
observations, but best of all are the climbing scenes, which are tightly
sprung and compulsively readable.'
-- Literary Review

From the Publisher:

Reminiscent of Donna Tartt, a circle of faux aristos at Cambridge form a private club - The Night Climbers - and sell on a fake Picasso to an Eastend gangster

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