- Women teachers, Drowning, Literature, Teenage girls
"In the evocative tradition of Donna Tartt's first novel, The Secret History, comes this accomplished debut of youthful innocence drowned by dark sins. Twenty years ago, Jane Hudson left the Heart Lake School for Girls in the Adirondacks after a terrible tragedy.
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Grave, earnest, bleak and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Carol Goodman
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 403
- Publisher
- BCA, Random House Publishing Group, Heinemann
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780434010219
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