The Schoolhouse - 'Stylish, pacy and genuinely frightening' The Times
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| Verlag | Little |
| Auflage | 2022 |
| Seiten | 304 |
| Format | 13,4 x 21,4 x 2,8 cm |
| Gewicht | 324 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9781472156310 |
| Bestell-Nr | 47215631UA |
A psychologically gripping and provocative new novel about childhood, secrets and trust, by the Booker Prize-nominated author of Love and Other Thought Experiments
'The Schoolhouse is taut, gripping and intensely moving right until the very last page. I truly couldn't put Sophie Ward's beautifully written novel down' Susannah Wise, author of This Fragile Earth
Isobel lives an isolated life in North London, working at a nearby library. She feels safe if she keeps to her routines and doesn't let her thoughts stray too far into the past. But a newspaper photograph of a missing local schoolgirl and a letter from her old teacher are all it takes for her ordinary, careful armour to become overwhelmed and the trauma of what happened when she was a pupil at The Schoolhouse to return.
The Schoolhouse was different - one of the 1970s experimental schools that were a reaction to the formal methods of the past. The usual rules did not apply, and life there was a dark interplay of freedom and violence, adventure and fear. Only her teenage diary recorded what happened, but the truth is coming for her and everything she has tried to prot ect is put at risk.
Set between the past and the present, The Schoolhouse is a masterful and gripping novel about childhood, secrets and trust.
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The Schoolhouse is taut, gripping and intensely moving right until the very last page. I truly couldn't put Sophie Ward's beautifully written novel down Susannah Wise, author of This Fragile Earth
