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The Headmaster's Wife

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by Thomas Christopher Greene
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Age range: 0 to 0 years old Publication Date: 01/05/2014
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Arthur Winthrop is a middle-aged headmaster at an elite prep school in Vermont. When he is arrested for an act that is incredibly out of character, the strait-laced, married headmaster confesses to a much more serious crime.

Arthur reveals that he has had a passionate affair with a scholarship student called Betsy Pappas. But Betsy is a fickle and precocious teenager. When she switches her attentions to a classmate, Arthur's passion for Betsy turns, by degrees, into something far darker. Now Arthur must tell the truth about what happened to Betsy. But can Arthur's version of events be trusted - or is the reality much more complex and unnerving?

The Headmaster's Wife is a dark, sinuous and compelling novel about marriage and obsessive love.
ISBN:
9781782391715
9781782391715
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Age range:
0 to 0 years old
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-05-2014
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
288
Dimensions (mm):
210x148x21mm
Weight:
0.33kg
Thomas Christopher Greene

Thomas Christopher Greene is the author of five previous novels: Mirror Lake; I'll Never Be Long Gone; Envious Moon; The Headmaster's Wife; and If I Forget You. His fiction has been translated into 13 languages. In 2008, Greene founded Vermont College of Fine Arts, a top graduate fine arts college, making him the youngest college president in the country at the time. He lives and works in Vermont.

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The Headmasters Wife by Thomas Christopher Greene was a very sensitive look at the long term of a marriage and the effects of both infatuation and loss. The characters were deep and complex and were sympathetically drawn. Add the element of mystery and it makes for a good read.

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A beautifully written novel with a rapid swerve in the plot that you just wont see coming, The Headmasters Wife is a great read. The loss of a loved one and the raw grief of life is so poignantly displayed by Thomas Christopher Greene that it sometimes makes it hard to read. When you read the acknowledgements after finishing the book you can see why it is so raw and powerful. With themes that are bound to create discussion and which a lot of us can relate to, and it being a relatively quick read, this will be a favourite for Bookclubs.

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