Black Chalk

by Alla, Albert

• ISBN13: 9781859643570
• ISBN10: 1859643574
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-09-01
• Publisher: Garnet Publishing

Summary

In the Oxfordshire countryside, a student walks into a classroom and starts shooting. Nate Dillingham, friends with shooter and victims alike, is the sole survivor and only witness. Easily led and eager to please, his recollections weave around others' hopes until he loses track of what really happened that day. After eight evasive years on the road, he comes back to Oxford, meets Leona, and plunges into a world of candor and desire. But Nate's defenses are deteriorating and Leona shares too much of his past... An unsettling tale of passion and guilt, Black Chalk is an edgy journey into twenty-first century morality.

Author Biography

Born in the South of France, ALBERT ALLA moved back and forth between St-Tropez and Nice until, at the age of thirteen, his family emigrated to Australia. Swapping Dumas for Dickens, he moved around Australia studying engineering and playing cricket, before going off to Oxford to study economics. He now splits his time between the island of New Caledonia and Sydney, Australia.