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 butch antipodean outsider arrives to take up the antiquated role of “matron.”
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Intimate, classical in form, character-led and grave.
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- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- K. Patrick
- First published
- 2023
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Limited, Europa Editions, Incorporated
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781609458409
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