Morning Star (novel)
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| name = Morning Star
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| image = [[Image:morning-star.jpg|200px|First edition ''Morning Star'' book cover]]
| image_caption = First edition ''Morning Star'' book cover
| author = [[Simon Raven]]
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| country = [[United Kingdom]]
| language = [[English language|English]]
| series = [[First Born of Egypt]]
| genre = [[Novel]]
| publisher = [[Frederick Muller]]
| release_date = 21 June 1984
| media_type = Print ([[Hardcover|Hardback]] & [[Paperback]])
| pages = 188 pp (hardback edition)
| isbn = ISBN 0-85634-138-X (hardback edition)
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'''''Morning Star''''' is Volume I of the [[novel sequences|novel sequence]] ''First Born of Egypt'' by [[Simon Raven]], published in [[1984 in literature|1984]].
''Morning Star'' is set in [[1977]] and features a large cast of upper class characters. The novel follows on 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 gets suspended from his boarding school for hitting another boy. Two [[homosexual]] friends, Ptolemaeos Tunne and Jeremy Fielding, become [[pedophilia|infatuated]] with Marius and probe his odd behaviour. Marius has a nursery crush on Jeremy and persuades him to share his bed, though nothing [[child sexual abuse|sexual]] happens. Marius’ problems are eventually linked to his obsessive [[masturbation|masturbating]] and a tight [[foreskin]].
==See also==
*[[Pedophilia]]
*[[List of books portraying paedophilia or sexual abuse of minors]]
*[[Child sexual abuse]]
[[Category:1984 novels|Morning Star]]
[[Category:British novels|Morning Star]]
[[Category:Novels by Simon Raven]]