Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking?

zoë heller

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Now a Major Motion Picture Schoolteacher Barbara Covett has led a solitary life until Sheba Hart, the new art teacher at St. George's, befriends her. But even as their relationship develops, so too does Sheba has begun an illicit affair with an underage male student. When the scandal turns into a media circus, Barbara decides to write an account in her friend's defense--and ends up revealing not only Sheba's secrets, but also her own.

Genres contemporaryliterary fictionbritish literatureadultaudiobookadult fictionfictionthrillerliteraturedrama

258 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,2003

Literary awards

booker prize, orange prize,

Places

england,

This edition

Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Published: December 12, 2006 by Picador
ISBN: 9780312426095
ASIN: 0312426097
Language: English

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About the author

zoë heller

Zoe Heller was born in London in 1965 and educated at Oxford University and Columbia University, New York. She is a journalist who, after writing book reviews for various newspapers, became a feature writer for The Independent. She wrote a weekly confessional column for the Sunday Times for four years, but now writes for the Daily Telegraph and earned the title 'Columnist of the Year' in 2002.

She is the author of three novels: Everything You Know (2000), a dark comedy about misanthropic writer Willy Miller, Notes on a Scandal (2003) which tells the story of an affair between a high school teacher and her student through the eyes of the teacher's supposed friend, Barbara Covett and her latest - The Believers (2008).

Zoe Heller lives in New York.