I'm the King of the Castle

Author Susan Hill

Foreword by Esther Freud

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I'm the King of the Castle is Susan Hill's spellbinding novel of childhood cruelty.

With an introduction by Esther Freud.

Susan Hill's I'm King of the Castle was first published in 1970. Telling the story of two boys forced to live together by their widowed parents, it is a chilling portrayal of childhood cruelty and persecution, of parental blindness and of our own ambivalence to what are supposed to be the happiest days of our lives.

'Hill's exploration of a juvenile ghoul and his natural prey is a brilliant tour de force'Guardian

'Equalled for poignancy and horror only in Lord of the Flies'Sunday Telegraph

$18.00

May 25, 2010

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Susan Hill has been a professional writer for over fifty years. Her books have won the Whitbread, the John Llewellyn Prize, and the W. Somerset Maugham Award, and have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her novels include Strange Meeting, I`m the King of the Castle and A Kind Man, and she has also published collections of short stories and two autobiographies. Her ghost story, The Woman in Black, has been running in London’s West End since 1988. Susan is married with two adult daughters and lives in North Norfolk.