This is indeed a literary page-turner, as described in the cover blurb. Barbara Covett, a lonely high school history teacher on the cusp of retirement and aching for meaningful human connections, fixates on a younger, wealthy art teacher, Sheba Hart. Sheba is a wife and mother with a busy social sch...
4.5 Stars.This is so good!!Passion,Jealousy,Loneliness,Friendship,Forbidden relationship,Manipulation,And brilliant story telling.I watched the film years ago and the book is even better.‘I’m not sure I could categorize what this is. People always want to boil these things down, don’t they ? I want ...
Ok, this read was for my book (and also watch the movie) club. It started slow, and never really grabbed my attention. The premise was a bit like [b:Tampa|17225311|Tampa|Alissa Nutting|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1393784199s/17225311.jpg|23731028] and that didn't go well for me. After being pr...
another great book where the author nails it. it being a narrator who reveals more of themselves than they think they are revealing. also a book where I love the movie. I wanted to read the book because of the movie, and now I want to watch the movie again because I read the book - the movie gets to...
another great book where the author nails it. it being a narrator who reveals more of themselves than they think they are revealing. also a book where I love the movie. I wanted to read the book because of the movie, and now I want to watch the movie again because I read the book - the movie gets to...
I kind of hated this book when I first read it, but even then I couldn't deny that it was, of course, very well-written. Actually, I kind of (to use a phrase from HBO's GIRLS, which I never thought I would) "love-hate-read" this book. I was really interested in the premise, but I thought the execu...
The Blurb: “From the first day that the beguiling Sheba Hart joins the staff of St. George’s history teacher Barbara Covett is convinced she has found a kindred spirit. Barbara’s loyalty to her new friend is passionate and unstinting and when Sheba is discovered to be having an illicit affair w...
Notes on a Scandal is a multi-layered story. While keeping up with the pretense of titillating readers with the lurid details of a much older woman's romance with an adolescent boy, it skilfully but subtly exposes the hypocrisy practiced by each one of its characters. How each one of them remained s...
Remember Rebecca? If you do, then you most certainly remember Mrs. Danvers, and hoshit was that woman scary.This novel was like reading her diary. Notes on a Scandal is the story of Sheba Hart, a forty-one year old pottery teacher who has an affair with a fifteen year old student. Sheba starts the ...
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