Name: What was she thinking?
Rating: 3.357142857142857 (14 reviews)
ISBN: 9780805073331

Zoe Heller

When her new friend and co-worker, Sheba Hart, begins a passionate affair with a male student, schoolteacher Barbara Covett decides to defend Sheba and unknowingly reveals secrets they both hide.

notes on a scandal

What was she thinking?

Zoë Heller

When her best friend Sheba Hart's love affair with an underage male student comes to light, igniting a media circus, solitary schoolteacher Barbara Covett decides to write an account of the affair in her friend's defense, in the process revealing not only Sheba's secrets, but also her own. By the author of Everything You Know. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Notes on a Scandal: A Novel

What Was She Thinking?

Jeannette Ordas

A high school teacher has an affair with a student with the whole story told through the eyes of her co-worker and friend, Barbara, a lonely and embittered an unreliable narrator. It's an easy read and quite compelling and dark, a beach read for sure.

Amy Maddess

-awful
-not about the subject at hand. Strays into randomness. 
-makes judgments about the case in question as well as random people. Refers to people in horribly derogatory terms. 
-talks ad nauseam about things not related to the narrative 
-the gist of the whole story could have been summed up in a paragraph. At most an article. 
-she refers to her own method as story telling as though she had planned to lay the book out better but just didn’t get around to it ex. ‘This point in the story has two stars for importance on my timeline’
 -just a rude lady

Simon Harrison

A fun read, which slips into becoming really quite creepy as the conclusion approaches. Time to watch the movie now I've seen who plays the leads

What was she thinking? notes on a scandal

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