Schooling

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Heather McGowan's story of Catrine Evans, an unsettled schoolgirl in an unfamiliar environment, was compared to Virginia Woolf, Dylan Thomas and Nabokov on publication. Catrine's memories of a life she left behind in the States assemble as a chorus rich in texture and breathtaking in linguistic ambition. The story that emerges is one of the most powerful and beautiful first novels of recent years.

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'It is a comfort to find the real thing... and this unsettling, imperfect, but formidable debut is no exception.' Times Literary Supplement; 'I want to say Schooling is the best book I've ever read... and the only book quite unlike any other. It gives you faith that novels can be different' London Review of Books