A review by anovelobsession
A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne

5.0

Oh how I love John Boyne. I have read two of his earlier books - The Absolutist and The Heart's Invisible Furies and loved them both. I don’t often like books with characters I despise, but Mr. Boyne made me hate Maurice Swift and I couldn’t stop reading about him. Set in the literary world, Maurice is a wannabe writer without a story. He is ruthless and has no problem with acquiring the stories of others to claim as his own - his sole ambition to win “The Prize”. Maurice stops at nothing in his single minded pursuit of publishing books, going to unimaginable lengths. A dark, disturbing character study that I thoroughly enjoyed.