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 0571206514
- ISBN13 9780571206513
- Publish Date 20 August 2001 (first published 13 June 2001)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 31 October 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English