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2 June 2026
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One afternoon in 1976, teenagers Jean and Tom share an almost imperceptible look across the grounds of Compton Manor, a boarding school for boys with problems. Their gaze marks a secret intimacy, one defined as much by violence as by friendship and desire. As the boys' connection deepens, so too does the risk that surrounds it. Jean - son of a single mother, Jewish, on a scholarship, forever an outsider - wonders whether the relationship might offer a way out of a life marked by alienation. But what if the only true path to freedom is to disappear altogether?

Spellbinding and evocative, Jean is a meditative narrative of loss and escape distilled into the heartrending story of an intense and dangerous adolescent love.

'There's something uncanny in Madeleine Dunnigan's austerely beautiful prose, in how what begins as a character study takes on a cosmic scale. Jean is a darkly luminous, profound novel; there are passages that give the shock of the genuinely great. An extraordinary debut.' Garth Greenwell
'Jean utterly transported me . . . Exquisite.' Katie Kitamura

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    9781917092722
    Publisher
    Faber Factory
    Published
    2 June 2026
    Format
    Paperback / softback
    Pages
    256

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    One afternoon in 1976, teenagers Jean and Tom share an almost imperceptible look across the grounds of Compton Manor, a boarding school for boys with problems. Their gaze marks a secret intimacy, one defined as much by violence as by friendship and desire. As the boys' connection deepens, so too does the risk that surrounds it. Jean - son of a single mother, Jewish, on a scholarship, forever an outsider - wonders whether the relationship might offer a way out of a life marked by alienation. But what if the only true path to freedom is to disappear altogether?

    Spellbinding and evocative, Jean is a meditative narrative of loss and escape distilled into the heartrending story of an intense and dangerous adolescent love.

    'There's something uncanny in Madeleine Dunnigan's austerely beautiful prose, in how what begins as a character study takes on a cosmic scale. Jean is a darkly luminous, profound novel; there are passages that give the shock of the genuinely great. An extraordinary debut.' Garth Greenwell
    'Jean utterly transported me . . . Exquisite.' Katie Kitamura

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