![]() As we enter deeper into this murky world, we learn other equally disturbing facts. ![]() On a website which he has called ‘badguysrock’, he has an avatar - and as the blueeyedboy of the title, he deals in deeply unsettling violent scenarios which feature people from his own life. BB is in his 40s, still living with his mother and making his living with an unrewarding (in every sense) hospital job. But is Joanne Harris’ authentic voice as an author the one that we hear in that book? Almost certainly not - with Blueeyedboy, the second of Harris’ psychological thrillers, it is becoming clearer that the dark, threatening world she conveys in her second series of books is more provocative and disturbing than anything Chocolat might have led us to expect from her.Īs in its predecessor, we are back in the Yorkshire town of Malbry, and in the company of a young man whose behaviour verges on the sociopathic. ![]() Joanne Harris is, of course, best known for Chocolat - a novel that brought readers quite as much pleasure as the substance after which it was named (and which became an equally successful movie). ![]()
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