Country United Kingdom Series First Born of Egypt Media type Hardback and paperback Followed by Face of the Waters OCLC 16277397 | Language English Publication date 21 June 1984 Originally published 21 June 1984 Genre Novel Publisher Frederick Muller | |
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Pages 188 pp (hardback edition) Similar Friends in Low Places, An Inch of Fortune, Blood of My Bone, Before the Cock Crow, Fielding Gray | ||
Morning Star is Volume I of the novel sequence First Born of Egypt by Simon Raven, published in 1984.
Set in 1977, the novel features a large cast of upper-class characters and continues the story from Raven’s Alms for Oblivion novel sequence.
Plot summary
The plot revolves around the behaviour of a 12-year-old boy called Marius Stern, who is suspended from his boarding school for hitting another boy. Scientist Ptolemaeos Tunne, with the assistance of Jeremy Morrison, attempt to get to the bottom of Marius' behaviour. Marius has a crush on Jeremy and persuades him to share his bed, though nothing sexual happens.
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