The Schoolhouse Av Sophie Ward

<p><b>''A compelling, fast-moving narrative . . . delivers real emotional impact'' <i><u>Telegraph</u></i><br><br>''A literary provocateur'' <i><u>Guardian</u></i></b><br><b><br>SHORTLISTED for the POLARI PRIZE 2023<br></b><b>WINNER of<i> DIVA Magazine</i>''s 2023 ''Author of the Year'' Award<br></b><br>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.<br><br> The Schoolhouse was a 1970s experimental school where Isobel''s days were a dark interplay of freedom and adventure, violence and fear. The only record of what happened there lies in the pages of her teenage diary. <br><br>The Schoolhouse taught Isobel that some truths must never be r