601. Zoe Heller - Notes On A Scandal

Book of the holiday, so far!

Despite her peripheral involvement in the actual scandal (a married school-mistress' affair with a male pupil), really a book about the narrator Barbara, a bitter and lonely middle aged spinster who reminded me a bit of my mother, and has to inveigle her ways into the lives of those around her.

A brilliant portrait of this woman.

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