Henbane

Henbane is a book it is difficult to - hardly worth the bother of - describing, for I myself cannot really decide what it is about. The plot is this: a disenchanted sixteen-year-old despises commitment and thus decides to fake his own suicide. On the morning of the suicide, however, things happen a little fast and he ends up in pain in the middle of the road. He wakes up in the bed of a perverted eighty-year-old woman, who promptly kills herself. The character discovers a house at the top of the garden (he was in a cottage at the bottom) and there he sits, and thinks, for the first time in his life, clearly. I shan't tell you the rest. From this description, I for one would be wholly unimpressed and would most definitely not buy the book. I think, however, that you should buy it. I hope that you agree with me. The preview, if you are intrested, is taken from towards the end of the book, when the main character has become unhappy with his situation and is in a mood for lashing out.