Little Nicolas is a delicate, timid schoolboy, with an excitable, if morbid imagination - the child of an overbearing father. So, two weeks away on the class trip is already enough to fill him with dread. But when a child goes missing, Nicolas' mind turns to gruesome possibilities, impelling him to take up the role of detective - and edge closer to a truth more shocking than Nicolas' worst fears.
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For a long time afterward - even now - Nicholas tried to remember the last words his father spoke to him.- 1
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(Vintage Digital, 6 August 2020, e-book, 151 pages, bought from AmazonKindle)
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I enjoyed Class Trip. The novella starts of innocently enough with Nicolas being dropped off late by his overbearing father. The boy's excitement wavers a little as he realises he left his bag in his father's car, but his father doesn't come back with it, and nobody can get a hold of him. Things start to get dark as Nicolas becomes friends with a strange boy and sinister events threaten to upend the trip and Nicolas's life. This is a compelling read.
