The Beast Within

Catherine MacPhail

Bloomsbury

0747582696

Apr 2007

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.