The Schoolhouse

The Schoolhouse is a novel that delves into the dark interplay of freedom and violence, adventure, and fear during the 1970s experimental schools. It is a compelling and fast-moving narrative that delivers real emotional impact.

Format: Hardback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 05 May 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

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A compelling, fast-moving narrative that delivers a real emotional impact

Telegraph

A literary provocateur

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 armor 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.

Weight: 430g
Dimension: 144 x 222 x 33 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781472156327