Morning Star (novel) 4532026 212398565 2008-05-14T17:53:18Z Tim! 203786 cat {{infobox Book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books --> | name = Morning Star | title_orig = | translator = | image = [[Image:morning-star.jpg|200px|First edition ''Morning Star'' book cover]] | image_caption = First edition ''Morning Star'' book cover | author = [[Simon Raven]] | cover_artist = | 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) | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} '''''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]]