Grievous

H. S. Cross returns to “a school as nuanced and secretive as J. K. Rowling’s Hogwarts” ( The Rumpus ) in Grievous , the sequel to her coming-of-age novel Wilberforce . St. Stephen’s Academy, Yorkshire, 1931. A world unto itself, populated by boys reveling in life’s first big mistakes and men still learning how to live with the consequences of their own. They live a cloistered life, exotic to modern eyes, founded upon privilege, ruled by byzantine and often unspoken laws, haunted by injuries both