Mrs. S
Book |
4th Estate,
London :
2023.
- 1 of 1 Copy Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
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About
"In an elite English boarding school where the girls kiss the marble statue of the famous dead author who used to walk the halls, a young Australian woman arrives to take up the antiquated role of 'matron'. Within this landscape of immense privilege, in which the girls can sense the slightest weakness in those around them, she finds herself unsure of her role, her accent and her body. That is until she meets Mrs S, the headmaster's wife, a woman who is her polar opposite: assured, sophisticated, a paragon of femininity. Over the course of a long, restless heatwave, the matron finds herself irresistibly drawn ever closer into Mrs S's world and their unspoken desire blooms into an illicit affair of electric intensity. But, as the summer begins to fade, both women know that a choice must be made"--
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Details
- ISBN: 0008560994
- ISBN: 9780008560997
- ISBN: 0008561001
- ISBN: 9780008561000
- Physical Description: 296 pages ; 23 cmprint
- Publisher: London : 4th Estate, 2023.
- Copyright: ©2023
- General Note: Simultaneously published: New York, NY : Europa Editions, 2023."Granta, Best of Young British Novelists, 2023"--Jacket.