by Susan Hill · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141041940
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«I'm the King of the Castle» is Susan Hill's psychological horror novel, published by Penguin in paperback (208 pages, in English).
After the marriage of their widowed parents, two boys, Charles and Edmund, are forced to live together. The initial rivalry turns into an escalation of bullying and humiliations that the adults refuse to see; the novel portrays childhood cruelty and vulnerability with unsettling precision.
Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971. This edition from the Penguin Decades collection, published in 2010, includes an introduction by Esther Freud.
For readers of psychological suspense and literary fiction seeking a modern classic about childhood cruelty.
Dame Susan Elizabeth Hill is an English author of fiction and non-fiction works. Her novels include The Woman in Black, which has been adapted for stage and screen, The Mist in the Mirror, and I'm the King of the Castle, for which she received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971. She also won the Whitbread Novel Award in 1972 for The Bird of Night, which was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
