Description An addictive Rubik's Cube of vice that keeps turning up new patterns of depravity.
a satire of writerly ambition wrapped in a psychological thriller.
A Ladder to the Sky is an homage to Patricia Highsmith, Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe, but its execution is entirely Boyne's own.
-- Ron Charles, Washington Post Take Meg Wolitzer's novel The Wife .
and cross it with Patricia Highsmith's classic Ripley stories, about a suave psychopat.
Hogarth Press A ladder to the sky, paperback/john boyne
