The Schoolhouse: 'Stylish, pacy and genuinely frightening' The Times
May 2022 · Hachette UK
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'A compelling, fast-moving narrative . . . delivers real emotional impact' Telegraph
SHORTLISTED for the POLARI PRIZE 2023
WINNER of DIVA Magazine's 2023 'Author of the Year' Award
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 spiralling 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 Isobel's days were a dark interplay of freedom and adventure, violence and fear. The only record of what happened there lies in the pages of her teenage diary.
'A literary provocateur' Guardian
SHORTLISTED for the POLARI PRIZE 2023
WINNER of DIVA Magazine's 2023 'Author of the Year' Award
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 spiralling 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 Isobel's days were a dark interplay of freedom and adventure, violence and fear. The only record of what happened there lies in the pages of her teenage diary.
The Schoolhouse taught Isobel that some truths must never be revealed, but as police investigating the missing girl start to ask uncomfortable questions, she realises the truth is coming for her - and it will put her, and everyone she has tried to protect, at risk.
From the Booker Prize-longlisted author of Love and Other Thought Experiments comes a masterful and gripping thriller about truth, silence, and the dead weight of the past.
'A compelling, fast-moving narrative . . . delivers real emotional impact' Telegraph
'A literary provocateur' Guardian
SHORTLISTED for the POLARI PRIZE 2023
WINNER of DIVA Magazine's 2023 'Author of the Year' Award
Isobel lives an isolated life in North London, where she works at a nearby libr...
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Sophie Ward is an actor and writer. Her debut novel, Love and Other Thought Experiments, was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2020.
Sophie Ward is an actor and writer. Her debut novel, Love and Other Thought Experiments, was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2020.
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