The Schoolhouse

Category: Book
By (author): Ward, Sophie
Subject:  FICTION / General
  FICTION / Literary
  FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: February 2023
Format: Book-paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 8.00in x 5.18in x 0.59in
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From The Publisher*From the Booker Prize-longlisted author of Love and Other Thought Experiments comes a masterful and gripping thriller about truth, silence, and the weight of the past.

Isobel lives an isolated life in North London, where she works at a nearby library. She feels safe, so long as she keeps to her routines and doesn't let her thoughts stray too far into the past. But a newspaper photograph of a missing local schoolgirl and a letter from her old teacher send her spiraling and bring back the trauma of what happened years ago, when she was a pupil at The Schoolhouse.

The Schoolhouse was a 1970s experimental school where the usual rules did not apply. Life there was a dark interplay of freedom and adventure, violence and fear. It was here that Isobel learned that some truths should never be revealed. But try as she might, the truth is coming for Isobel, and everything and everyone she has tried to protect are now at risk.
Review Quote*"Superlative. . . . Perfectly balancing nuanced emotion and riveting suspense. This is not to be missed."
-Publishers Weekly, **starred review**

"A literary provocateur. . . . [Ward writes with] considerable insight and humanity."
-The Guardian

"A tense, taut drama."
-Good Housekeeping (London)
 
"A page turner."
-The Herald (London)
Biographical NoteSOPHIE WARD is an actor and a writer. She has published articles in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Observer, The Spectator, Diva, and Red magazine, and her short stories have been published in the anthologies Finding a Voice, Book of Numbers, The Spiral Path, and The Gold Room. Her book A Marriage Proposal: The Importance of Equal Marriage and What it Means for All of Us was published as a Guardian short eBook in 2014. In 2018, Sophie won the Pindrop short story award for "Sunbed." She has a degree in philosophy and literature and a PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London, on the use of narrative in philosophy of mind.