Black Chalk

"Black Chalk is a story about the fictional Pitt College at Oxford. Six students, freshers all — five Brits of varying tempers and varying levels of damage, and one American exchange student called Chad — concoct a game in a moment of boredom and inspiration. To say any more about it would be to ruin the pleasure because this book has one of the greatest surprise reveals of the year. When you see the tricky switch Christopher Yates has pulled, you just want to kiss him, because dammit if there isn’t something sweet and satisfying about a plot twist pulled off with aplomb."