A review by morebedsidebooks
Special Friendships by Edward Hyams, Roger Peyrefitte

5.0

Roger Peyrefitte broke onto the literary scene with the award winning 1943 novel les Amitiés particulières about the bond of two boys at a Roman Catholic boarding school, inspired in part by his own youth.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

There is a predatory priest as well as general homophobia from a religious basis depicted in the book.