Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking?: A Novel (Paperback)
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Description
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Now a Major Motion Picture
Schoolteacher Barbara Covett has led a solitary life until Sheba Hart, the new art 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 also her own.
About the Author
Zoë Heller was born in London and lives in New York City. She is the author of the novel Everything You Know.
Praise for Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking?: A Novel…
"An intense, witty, literary page-turner"--Entertainment Weekly "Equally adroit at satire and at psychological suspense, Zoë Heller charts the course of a predatory friendship and demonstrates the lengths to which some people go for human company."--The New Yorker
"A deliciously perverse, laugh-out-loud-funny novel."--Vogue
"A triumph of intelligence and narrative control."--The Times (London)
"Heller is a great ventriloquist of character, and as the unhinged curator of the Sheba affair, Barbara is painfully note perfect."--The Washington Post Book World
"Wicked and wonderful social satire."--Glamour
