'Britain's answer to Donna Tartt' Sunday Times'A huge talent' Hilary Mantel 'What a writer'
Richard Osman In the summer of 1952 Joyce and Charlie Savigear are waiting on a railway
platform in the quiet English countryside. The siblings have just been released from borstal to
start a new life as apprentices at Leventree an architecture practice with a difference.The
architects who've chosen them are Florence and Arthur Mayhood a married couple motivated to
give young offenders second chances. At first they seem to offer the Savigears a steady path
to happiness. But when a menacing figure from Joyce's past comes knocking they are lured back
to the world they left behind. Will the Mayhoods' goodwill be enough to steer their young
apprentices away from danger or will the darkness of their past catch up with them?'Benjamin
Wood is a beautiful writer and this is his best novel yet both gripping and unputdownable'
Andrew O'Hagan'The Young Accomplice shows the difference between a book that slides down the
surface of things and one that digs it claws into you and sticks there' The Times'Benjamin
Wood is building a sublime body of work. This masterful suspenseful novel is his best yet'
David Whitehouse
