The Beast Within
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| Catherine MacPhail |
| Bloomsbury |
| 0747582696 |
| Apr 2007 |
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Continuing the story of Ram, “The Beast Within” follows on from “Into the Shadows” as the second book in the ‘Nemesis’ series. Ram suffers a type of amnesia meaning he is unaware of his background or parentage and finds himself subject to the types of desires and expectation that others fulfil through him.
This takes a sinister turn when he is captured on the moors and is appropriated as a couple’s child… A beast is reputed to be at large on the moors and there are rumours concerning the disappearance – and possible murder of a child. Catherine Macphail’s text probes at identity, stimulating question as to just who is after Ram, the nature of the knowledge he possesses and why this poses a threat to certain individual… MacPhail seeds the idea of latent knowledge and examines how we operate in an environment when we lack understanding of our positions within that society.
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