Zoe Heller

What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal, Library Edition Zoe Heller Unabridged edition

 Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Now a Major Motion Picture

Schoolteacher Barbara Covett has led a solitary life until Sheba Hart, the new art teacher at St. George's, befriends her. But even as their relationship develops, so too does another: Sheba has begun an illicit affair with an underage male student. When the scandal turns into a media circus, Barbara decides to write an account in her friend's defense--and ends up revealing not only Sheba's secrets, but also her own.