What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal] by Zoë Heller

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Book name:	What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal] (2024)
Category:	Contemporary
Author:	Zoë Heller
Pages:	258 pages
ISBN13:	0312421990
ISBN:	0312421990
Language:	English
Publication data:	June 1, 2003, 7 a.m.

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 another: 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.

About the author

Zoë Heller

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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… Read more