Black Chalk

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What to expect

One game. Six students. Five survivors.

It was only ever meant to be a game.

A game of consequences, of silly forfeits, childish dares. A game to be played by six best friends in their first year at Oxford University. But then the game changed: the stakes grew higher and the dares more personal, more humiliating, finally evolving into a vicious struggle with unpredictable and tragic results.

Now, fourteen years later, the remaining players must meet again for the final round.

Critics Review

  • An inventive and intricate psychological puzzle thriller that mystifies, torments, disturbs, beguiles… a powerfully intelligent debut

    The Times

  • A compulsive page-turner that will hold your attention until the very last word

    Sun

  • Sinister, addictive and unpredictable – this is a novel to be devoured greedily, at speed, but one that will leave its footprint on your memory for far longer

    Red

  • Yates’s take on the collegiate thriller lives up to early comparisons to Donna Tartt’s The Secret History… filled with gleeful malevolence

    Grazia

  • [A] chilling debut…this is a thriller, a cautionary tale and a sobering exploration of unintended consequences rolled into one

    Daily Mail

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