On a remote Scottish island, sixteen-year-old Frank Cauldhame lives an isolated and deeply unconventional life with his eccentric father. His days are shaped by strange rituals, dark inventions and a private logic that sets him apart from the world beyond the dunes. But when news arrives that his troubled brother Eric has escaped from a psychiatric hospital and is heading home, Frank's carefully controlled existence begins to unravel. As past and present collide, long-buried secrets surface – forcing a reckoning that will transform everything he thought he knew about himself. The Wasp Factory is an exploration of identity, family and the limits of the human mind.