Diario de un escandalo / Notes on a Scandal

from herschelian

Ostensibly this novel is about the affair between a married woman teacher (Sheba) at a large inner London school and an adolescent male pupil, the scandal it causes when it is discovered and the consequences arising from it. However it is also about the relationship between Sheba and a fellow tea...

from eleanor_eader

This is, at its core, a novel about obsession; the narrator's for her young colleague Sheba Hart, and Sheba's for the fifteen year old pupil with whom she is having an affair. There is something slightly lunatic and sad about these two women; At 60, spinsterly, closeted lesbian (closeted, or not ...

from BibliophageOnCoffee

Excellent use of dark humor. I loved the narrator's unhinged bitchiness.

from alexrichman

It's possible to sell this as a ripped-from-the-headlines tale about a fortysomething teacher's affair with a secondary school pupil, but it's just as much about the creepy, unreliable narrator's obsession with said teacher. A riveting plot related to us by a distinctive and unnerving character, ...

from alexrichman

It's possible to sell this as a ripped-from-the-headlines tale about a fortysomething teacher's affair with a secondary school pupil, but it's just as much about the creepy, unreliable narrator's obsession with said teacher. A riveting plot related to us by a distinctive and unnerving character, ...