The Young Poisoner's Handbook
“Meet Graham. He's not your ordinary teenager.”
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Graham Young is a teenage misfit living in suburban London in the 1960s. He hates his stepmother but loves chemistry, and the two impulses unite in a wicked plot to slowly poison her. After she dies, he's found guilty and sent to a psychiatric hospital, where an idealistic doctor thinks he can be cured.
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A disturbingly funny and detached look at a peculiar young mind. It’s a quirky, unsettling journey into the mind of a social misfit who finds peculiar uses for his intellect, set against a drab, yet oddly charming, 1960s London backdrop.
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