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What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal
A Literary Fiction Novel by Zoë Heller
Subgenres:
- Psychological Fiction,
- Satire,
- Teacher-Student Relationship
This book is for you if you're into...
- Psychological portraits told through unreliable narrators
- Friendship stories laced with envy and obsession
- Satirical takes on scandal and media frenzy
A lonely schoolteacher reveals more than she intends when she records the story of her best friend's affair with a pupil in this sly, insightful novel. Schoolteacher Barbara Covett has led a solitary life until Sheba Hart, the new teacher at St. George's, befriends her. But even as their relationship develops, so too does another: Sheba has begun an illicit affair with an underage male student.
When the scandal turns into a media circus, Barbara decides to write an account in her friend's defense—and ends up revealing not only Sheba's secrets but her own. What Was She Thinking? is a story of repression and passion, envy and complacence, friendship and loneliness. A complex psychological portrait framed as a wicked satire, it is by turns funny, poignant, and sinister.
The basis of the 2006 film, Notes on a Scandal, starring Judi Dench and Kate Blanchett.
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