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The schoolhouse / Sophie Ward.
"Isobel lives an isolated life in North London, where she works at a nearby library. She feels safe, so long as she keeps to her routines ... But a newspaper photograph of a missing local schoolgirl ... bring[s] back the trauma of what happened years ago, when she was a pupil at The Schoolhouse ... a 1970s experimental school where the usual rules did not apply. Life there was a dark interplay of freedom and adventure, violence and fear. It was here that Isobel learned that some truths should never be revealed. But try as she might, the truth is coming for Isobel, and everything and everyone she has tried to protect are now at risk"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593469262 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: 289 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First Vintage Books edition.
- Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 2023.
- Copyright: ©2022
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| Subject: | Girls > Abuse of > Fiction. Librarians > Fiction. Missing children > England > London > Fiction. Private schools > Fiction. Psychic trauma > Fiction. Secrecy > Fiction. Women librarians > England > London > Fiction. London (England) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Thrillers (Fiction) Psychological fiction. Novels. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | FIC Ward | 31681010315141 | FICTIONPBK | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
"Isobel lives an isolated life in North London, where she works at a nearby library. She feels safe, so long as she keeps to her routines...But a newspaper photograph of a missing local schoolgirl...bring[s] back the trauma of what happened years ago, when she was a pupil at The Schoolhouse...a 1970s experimental school where the usual rules did not apply. Life there was a dark interplay of freedom and adventure, violence and fear. It was here that Isobel learned that some truths should never be revealed. But try as she might, the truth is coming for Isobel, and everything and everyone she has tried to protect are now at risk"-- - Baker & Taylor
When recent events bring back the trauma of what happened years ago, Isobel, once a pupil at an experimental schoolâThe Schoolhouse, a place of freedom, adventure, violence and fear where she learned some truths should never be revealed, must face her past to protect those she loves. Original. - Random House, Inc.
From the Booker Prize-longlisted author of Love and Other Thought Experiments comes a masterful and gripping thriller about truth, silence, and the weight of the past.
Isobel lives an isolated life in North London, where she works at a nearby library. She feels safe, so long as she keeps to her routines and doesnât 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 send her spiraling and bring back the trauma of what happened years ago, when she was a pupil at The Schoolhouse.
The Schoolhouse was a 1970s experimental school where the usual rules did not apply. Life there was a dark interplay of freedom and adventure, violence and fear. It was here that Isobel learned that some truths should never be revealed. But try as she might, the truth is coming for Isobel, and everything and everyone she has tried to protect are now at risk.
