A DARK TALE OF TEMPTATION AND CORRUPTION

SECRETLY PUBLISHED.

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ROBIN MAUGHAM’S SCANDALOUS NOVEL IS ABOUT TO SHOCK A NEW GENERATION.

Set in the UK and Morocco in 1966, The Wrong People follows English schoolmaster Arnold Turner. On holiday in Tangier, he is drawn into the dangerous world of Clarence Baird.

A rich and unscrupulous expatriate, Baird entraps Turner into bringing him a troubled pupil from his approved school so that he can be groomed.

The monstrous plan, involving a dead-of-night kidnapping and a secret passage to Marseille, has a shockingly unexpected conclusion.

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The novel has been rediscovered and reassessed in recent years in light of investigations into historic child abuse. It was republished in 2019 by Valancourt Books.