Schooling

Heather McGowan's widely praised first novel introduces a literary artist of consummate skill, and a narrative voice of astonishing sensitivity and sensuousness. Tracking every mercurial shift of her character's consciousness, the result is dreamy, disquieting, and achingly alive.

Schooling is a portrait of an adolescent girl, thirteen-year-old Catrine Evans, who following her mother's death is uprooted from her home in America to an English boarding school. There she encounters classmates who sniff glue and engage in arson and instructors who make merciless fun of her accent. She also finds the sympathetic chemistry teacher Mr. Gilbert, who offers Catrine the friendship she so desperately wants-a friendship that gradually takes on sinister and obsessive overtones.

Author: Heather McGowan
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/25/2002
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.18w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9780375714320

Review Citation(s):
Booksense '76 Jul/Aug 2002 07/01/2002 pg. 1
Entertainment Weekly 07/12/2002 pg. 75
Kliatt 11/01/2002 pg. 20

About the Author
Heather McGowan lives Providence, Rhode Island.