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The Schoolhouse

By Sophie Ward

By Sophie Ward

By Sophie Ward

By Sophie Ward

By Sophie Ward
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Mar 14, 2023 | ISBN 9780593469262

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Mar 14, 2023 | ISBN 9780593469279

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Mar 14, 2023 | 449 Minutes

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    About The Schoolhouse

    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.

    About The Schoolhouse

    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.

    About The Schoolhouse

    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.

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    About Sophie Ward

    SOPHIE WARD is an actor and writer who has worked in film and television since her feature film debut in Steven Spielberg’s Young Sherlock Holmes, and in theatre, most notably with the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow. Sophie has been an… More about Sophie Ward

    About Sophie Ward

    SOPHIE WARD is an actor and writer who has worked in film and television since her feature film debut in Steven Spielberg’s Young Sherlock Holmes, and in theatre, most notably with the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow. Sophie has been an… More about Sophie Ward

    About Sophie Ward

    SOPHIE WARD is an actor and writer who has worked in film and television since her feature film debut in Steven Spielberg’s Young Sherlock Holmes, and in theatre, most notably with the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow. Sophie has been an… More about Sophie Ward

    Product Details

    Category: Suspense & Thriller | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Vintage
    Mar 14, 2023 | 304 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780593469262

    Category: Suspense & Thriller | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Vintage
    Mar 14, 2023 | 272 Pages | ISBN 9780593469279

    Category: Suspense & Thriller | Literary Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $20.00
    Published by Random House Audio
    Mar 14, 2023 | 449 Minutes | ISBN 9780593668436
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    Praise

    “Superlative. . . . Perfectly balancing nuanced emotion and riveting suspense. This is not to be missed.”
    —Publishers Weekly, **starred review**

    “Stylish, pacey, and genuinely frightening.”
    —The Times (London)

    “A literary provocateur. . . . [Ward writes with] considerable insight and humanity.”
    —The Guardian

    “A tense, taut drama.”
    —Good Housekeeping (London)
     
    “A page turner.”
    —The Herald (Glasgow)

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