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THE SCHOOLHOUSE - SOPHIE WARD TASCHENBUCH

'A tense  taut drama' Good Housekeeping Isobel lives an isolated life in North London  where
she works at a nearby library. She feels safe  so long as she keeps to her routines and doesn't
let her thoughts stray too far into the past. But a newspaper photograph of a missing local
schoolgirl and a letter from her old teacher send her spiralling and bring back the trauma of
what happened years ago  when she was a pupil at The Schoolhouse. The Schoolhouse was a 1970s
experimental school. Isobel's days there were a dark interplay of freedom and adventure 
violence and fear. The only record of what happened there is her teenage diary  and her memory
. . . One lesson The Schoolhouse taught her was that some truths must never be revealed. But as
the police investigating the missing girl start to ask uncomfortable questions  Isobel realises
the truth is coming for her - and it will put her  and everyone she has tried to protect  at
risk. From the Booker Prize-longlisted author of Love and Other Thought Experiments comes a
masterful and gripping thriller about truth  silence  and the dead weight of the past. 'A
compelling  fast-moving narrative . . . What's best about [Sophie Ward's] novels  however  is
her gift for bringing characters to life . . . The Schoolhouse delivers a real emotional
impact' Telegraph 'The Schoolhouse is a legit crime thriller: stylish  pacey and genuinely
frightening . . . If only more Booker-recognised writers did stuff this fun' The Times
'Queerness and deafness sit alongside themes of resilience and trust  making for an evocative 
well-paced narrative that's sure to win her new readers' Guardian

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