The Schoolhouse: 'Stylish, pacy and genuinely frightening' The Times
Autor Sophie Warden Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 mai 2022
'A compelling, fast-moving narrative . . . delivers real emotional impact' Telegraph
'A literary provocateur' Guardian
Isobel lives an isolated life in North London, working at a nearby library. She feels safe if 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 are all it takes for her ordinary, careful armour to become overwhelmed and the trauma of what happened when she was a pupil at The Schoolhouse to return.
The Schoolhouse was different - one of the 1970s experimental schools that were a reaction to the formal methods of the past. The usual rules did not apply, and life there was a dark interplay of freedom and violence, adventure and fear. Only her teenage diary recorded what happened, but the truth is coming for her and everything she has tried to protect is put at risk.
Set between the past and the present, The Schoolhouse is a masterful and gripping novel about childhood, secrets and trust.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781472156327
ISBN-10: 1472156323
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 140 x 218 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Corsair
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1472156323
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 140 x 218 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Corsair
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
The Schoolhouse is taut, gripping and intensely moving right until the very last page. I truly couldn't put Sophie Ward's beautifully written novel down
The Schoolhouse is a real 'stand-out-from-the-crowd' book, with an absorbing plot from the get-go; part detective novel, part taut, cerebral thriller . . . A masterful rendition of the tensions and realities of human resilience and emotional frailty
The Schoolhouse is a legit crime thriller: stylish, pacey and genuinely frightening . . . If only more Booker-recognised writers did stuff this fun
A tense, taut drama that questions how childhood trauma affects adult behaviour
Queerness and deafness sit alongside themes of resilience and trust, making for an evocative, well-paced narrative that's sure to win her new readers
Ward proves she can construct a compelling, fast-moving narrative (with an extended action-packed denouement). What's best about her novels, however, is her gift for bringing characters to life, which means that whether her writing is disconcertingly strange or, as here, treads at times on over-familiar territory, it always delivers a real emotional impact.
A literary provocateur . . . [Ward writes with] considerable insight and humanity . . . this novel has much to say about childhood . . . Ward unpicks the damage caused not just by people intent on harm, but those around them who, blinded by idealism, prejudice or laziness, cannot see what is right before their eyes. Her anger is palpable, but so too is her compassion
The mysteries of the child's disappearance and of what scarred Isobel so deeply 15 years earlier make the book a page-turner, with some intriguing themes of trauma and abuse
Praise for Sophie Ward's Booker Prize-nominated debut Love and Other Thought Experiments
'A book that dances and dazzles with ideas and left me thinking long after I finished it' Sophie Kinsella
'Breathtaking' Fiona Shaw
'Ward's ingenious fiction debut . . . is often moving, exuberant and sensitive . . . gifts of bravura wit and imagination' Guardian
'Quite extraordinary . . . [Her] writing is often moving, exuberant and sensitive' Daily Telegraph
'Brimming with close observation . . . the sheer literary ambition on show is impressive . . . a highly original first novel' Spectator
The Schoolhouse is a real 'stand-out-from-the-crowd' book, with an absorbing plot from the get-go; part detective novel, part taut, cerebral thriller . . . A masterful rendition of the tensions and realities of human resilience and emotional frailty
The Schoolhouse is a legit crime thriller: stylish, pacey and genuinely frightening . . . If only more Booker-recognised writers did stuff this fun
A tense, taut drama that questions how childhood trauma affects adult behaviour
Queerness and deafness sit alongside themes of resilience and trust, making for an evocative, well-paced narrative that's sure to win her new readers
Ward proves she can construct a compelling, fast-moving narrative (with an extended action-packed denouement). What's best about her novels, however, is her gift for bringing characters to life, which means that whether her writing is disconcertingly strange or, as here, treads at times on over-familiar territory, it always delivers a real emotional impact.
A literary provocateur . . . [Ward writes with] considerable insight and humanity . . . this novel has much to say about childhood . . . Ward unpicks the damage caused not just by people intent on harm, but those around them who, blinded by idealism, prejudice or laziness, cannot see what is right before their eyes. Her anger is palpable, but so too is her compassion
The mysteries of the child's disappearance and of what scarred Isobel so deeply 15 years earlier make the book a page-turner, with some intriguing themes of trauma and abuse
Praise for Sophie Ward's Booker Prize-nominated debut Love and Other Thought Experiments
'A book that dances and dazzles with ideas and left me thinking long after I finished it' Sophie Kinsella
'Breathtaking' Fiona Shaw
'Ward's ingenious fiction debut . . . is often moving, exuberant and sensitive . . . gifts of bravura wit and imagination' Guardian
'Quite extraordinary . . . [Her] writing is often moving, exuberant and sensitive' Daily Telegraph
'Brimming with close observation . . . the sheer literary ambition on show is impressive . . . a highly original first novel' Spectator
Notă biografică
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 active campaigner for LGBTQ rights and her non-fiction book, A Marriage Proposal, was published by the Guardian in 2014. Her first novel, Love and Other Thought Experiments, was longlisted for the Booker prize in 2020.