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The Nest

von Paul Jennings

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Sixteen-year-old Robin lives with his single father in the Victorian alps where they run a snowmobile hire business. Robin lives in fear of his bullying father and believes that it was his (Robin's) fault that his mother left them when he was a baby, which is why his father hates him and is the cause of all his problems. Robin has a mental condition - a fear of fear. As events unfold he runs from his father, he runs from the girl he loves, he runs into trouble, he runs from himself. His suspicions about his mother's disappearance grow. Could this be a murder mystery, or is this all part of his tortured mind? What has the swallows' nest got to do with it? As Robin starts to piece things together towards a dramatic climax, so too builds the intensity of everything else going on in his life: his fears and confusions, his unwanted images, his hopeless relationships, the desire of his first love. How this plays out in the fast-paced thriller of a finale will have the listener guessing to the end. Features interview with Paul Jennings at the end of the final CD. Paul Jennings discusses the inspiration behind The Nest, its setting and characters, and the writing process with narrator Stig Wemyss.… (mehr)
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Very good read. Read it quickly. Author does a good job of developing characters that hook you in from the beginning. ( )
  ARexroth | Jun 7, 2016 |
Don't expect the quirky Paul Jennings of Round the Twist and the "Un" series in this dark tale of a boy struggling to come to terms with who he is through his writing. It's about Robin who lives in a ski village in the Australian alps with his father. His father is gruff and uncommunicative and Robin believes that he drove his mother away as his father refuses point blank to talk about her. Enter Charlie, a vivacious caring girl who wants to help Robin open up his feelings about his mother abandoning him. Cue a bird with a broken wing which Robin decides to kill to put out of its pain. Enter Charlie stage right just as Robin does the deed. Horrified she refuses to hear his side of the story and shuts him out of her life. This causes Robin to seek solace with the manipulating, slutty Verushka - Robin is aware of is happening to him, but he seems unable to stop the spiral down into her dark world of drugs and other sordid pleasures. It is ultimately Robin's father, on seeing a swallow's nest and dissolving into a pool of tears that brings things to a head. Why is his father acting so strangely? Does it have anything to do with the red hair in the nest - hair that matches the red colour that was his mother's? Why is his father visiting an abandoned mine shaft in a snow storm? Robin is about to make an horrifying discovery and Charlie will be by his side it when it happens. This book is interspersed with short fables, supposedly written by Robin to help him sort through his feelings about Charlie, Verushka, and his parents. Contains tame sex scenes and drug use - older readers.
  nicsreads | Sep 11, 2009 |
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Sixteen-year-old Robin lives with his single father in the Victorian alps where they run a snowmobile hire business. Robin lives in fear of his bullying father and believes that it was his (Robin's) fault that his mother left them when he was a baby, which is why his father hates him and is the cause of all his problems. Robin has a mental condition - a fear of fear. As events unfold he runs from his father, he runs from the girl he loves, he runs into trouble, he runs from himself. His suspicions about his mother's disappearance grow. Could this be a murder mystery, or is this all part of his tortured mind? What has the swallows' nest got to do with it? As Robin starts to piece things together towards a dramatic climax, so too builds the intensity of everything else going on in his life: his fears and confusions, his unwanted images, his hopeless relationships, the desire of his first love. How this plays out in the fast-paced thriller of a finale will have the listener guessing to the end. Features interview with Paul Jennings at the end of the final CD. Paul Jennings discusses the inspiration behind The Nest, its setting and characters, and the writing process with narrator Stig Wemyss.

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