Simon lives alone in a remote cottage at the end of a muddy track. His only companions are his cats and the night visitors he conjures up in his imagination. Abandoned by his family, shunned by society, he is seen as a frightening figure, a brooding recluse best left alone.
Yet Simon is one of nature's innocents, and it is only through others that he becomes involved in wrongdoing. From the tyranny of a brutal stepfather, who drives his mother to an early grave, the taunting and ridicule in childhood by other boys, misunderstanding from his sister and brother, and those who attempt to care, he eventually emerges as the unexpected survivor - and in triumphant style - Victor Ludorum.
Victor Ludorum is a story of love, sex, murder and revenge; the story of a troubled family, the loneliness of each of its members, and the deceptive perceptions of weakness and strength.
Jennifer Chapman, whose writing has been likened to Deborah Moggach, Rachel Billington and Penelope Lively, is the author of an acclaimed sequence of contemporary novels published by Endeavour Media, including The Long Weekend, Mysterious Ways, Not Playing the Game and Regretting It.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Yet Simon is one of nature's innocents, and it is only through others that he becomes involved in wrongdoing. From the tyranny of a brutal stepfather, who drives his mother to an early grave, the taunting and ridicule in childhood by other boys, misunderstanding from his sister and brother, and those who attempt to care, he eventually emerges as the unexpected survivor - and in triumphant style - Victor Ludorum.
Victor Ludorum is a story of love, sex, murder and revenge; the story of a troubled family, the loneliness of each of its members, and the deceptive perceptions of weakness and strength.
Jennifer Chapman, whose writing has been likened to Deborah Moggach, Rachel Billington and Penelope Lively, is the author of an acclaimed sequence of contemporary novels published by Endeavour Media, including The Long Weekend, Mysterious Ways, Not Playing the Game and Regretting It.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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