I'm the King of the Castle

Susan Hill First published 1970

About this book

Tells 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 out own ambivalence to what are supposed to be the happiest days of our lives.

Subjects

  • childhood
  • fiction, general
  • fiction in english
  • isolation
  • lack of parenting
  • nature
  • readers