Description

Louise McGowan’s broadly praised first book presents a narrative style of amazing awareness, and a fictional artist of consummate ability and sensuousness. Monitoring every shift of her character’s awareness, the end result is disquieting, wonderful, and achingly living. Education is just a face of a teenager girl, thirteen-year-old Catrine Evans, who following her mother’s demise is uprooted from her home in The Usa to an English boarding-school. There she confronts friends who sniff glue and participate in arson and teachers who make merciless fun of her accent.