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.
- ISBN10 0385501382
- ISBN13 9780385501385
- Publish Date 19 June 2001 (first published 13 June 2001)
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Out of Print 16 December 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 314
- Language English