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Falling into glory

Robert Westall

1993224 pagesabout 3–5 hours
1993
first published
  • 1993Methuen Children's Books · 224 pages · ENGISBN 9780416188110
  • 1993Methuen Children's Books. · 303 pages · ENGISBN 9780416188011
  • 1995Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 310 pages · ENGISBN 9780374322564

Seventeen year old robbie seem to have the world in the palm of his hand. In his final year of school before university, he's not only a prefect, admired for his academic brilliance, but also a fearsome athlete who uses both his mammoth stature and his ingenuity in trying to change his school's rugby team. While he experiences the liberating power of brains and brawn he also notice that he's beginning to have "a strange effect on women." And when a beautiful young woman almost twice his age, begins to notice him for more than just his mind, he follows that path leads to glimps the difference between glory and honor.

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