Review

Kate Weinberg's debut novel, The Truants, is a thriller set in an English university

By Colin Steele
Updated July 2 2021 - 1:38am, first published September 21 2019 - 5:00am

British author, Kate Weinberg spent seven years writing her debut novel, The Truants. She studied at Oxford University, and then later at the University of East Anglia. The concrete buildings and dormitories of the Norwich campus, at which first-year student Jess Walker arrives, is clearly based on UEA. It is a far cry from the glittering spires of Oxford in Brideshead Revisited. Weinberg has said in interview that there is "something bracing about UEA's concrete reality".

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