Author:John Wyndham
Matthew's parents are worried. At eleven, he's much too old to have an imaginary friend, yet they find him talking to and arguing with a presence that even he admits is not physically there. This presence - Chocky - causes Matthew to ask difficult questions and say startling things: he speaks of complex mathematics and mocks human progress. Then, when Matthew does something incredible, it seems there is more than the imaginary about Chocky. Which is when others become interested and ask questions of their own: who is Chocky? And what could it want with an eleven-year-old boy?
A story of innocence and alien contact, Chocky is a sinister tale of manipulation and experimentation from afar.
Barnes manages to be erudite but extremely funny too… You never know what Barnes is going to do next and I admire that.’
—— Caroline Rees , Daily ExpressDelightful and enriching... A book to revel in!
—— Joseph HellerEndless food for thought, beautifully written... A tour de force
—— Germaine GreerA gem: an unashamed literary novel that is also unashamed to be readable, and broadly entertaining. Bravo!
—— John IrvingJulian Barnes' wry and graceful book, part novel, part stealthy literary criticism, traces the marks Flaubert made on a forgetting world. The writing is unfailingly sharp and often very funny, and among the best prose I have read in years
—— Sunday TimesA delight... Handsomely the best novel published in England in 1984
—— John FowlesA strange book, both whimsical and deeply ambitious
—— IndependentThe nearest useful comparison to Knox's conceptual framework is Philip Pullman's Northern Lights, which also explores social power and control in the context of other possible quantum universes
—— ABC magazine
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