Thursday, February 18, 2010

"The Chatham School Affair"




I've wanted to read this book by Thomas Cook for a while now. He had a new release this year, "The Fate of Katherine Carr," which was quite good and very dark. This is a better-known title by him, and I think the premise from Publishers Weekly sounds interesting:

"Elizabeth Channing is trying to change the path of her life as, in 1926, she arrives to teach art at a small boys' school located in the Cape Cod village of Chatham. Believing that "life is best lived at the edge of folly," she immediately enthralls the novel's narrator, Henry, the headmaster's son. But Elizabeth is drawn to a fellow teacher, Leland Reed, a freethinker who is unhappily married and has begun to have serious doubts about his life. The inevitable tragedy and its aftermath is narrated by a mature, melancholy Henry looking back at the strange, bleak fates of those involved."

Does March 20 sound good?

3 comments:

kc said...

Three words:

1920s.

Prep school.

Cape Cod.


Love it, cl!

I'm ordering it now!

kc said...

Just got this in the mail! It looks great.

cl said...

Super. I'm looking forward to it, too.