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Notes on a Scandal

What Was She Thinking?: A Novel

Author: Zoë Heller

Notes on a Scandal

Notes on a Scandal

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About This Book

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize

Zoë Heller's Notes on a Scandal ("A deliciously perverse, laugh-out-loud-funny novel." --Vogue) is a major...

Page Count
272
On Sale
12/12/2006

Book Details

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize

Zoë Heller's Notes on a Scandal ("A deliciously perverse, laugh-out-loud-funny novel." --Vogue) is a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight starring Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench

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.

Imprint Publisher

Picador

ISBN

9781429912174

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In The News

“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

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Notes on a Scandal

Notes on a Scandal

$11.99

e-Book