The Schoolhouse
- Author Sophie Ward
- Narrator Sophie Ward
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Run Time 7 hours and 30 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Modern and contemporary fiction.
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What to expect
'A book that dances and dazzles with ideas and left me thinking long after I finished it' Sophie Kinsella
'Breathtaking' Fiona Shaw
'Ward's ingenious fiction debut . . . is often moving, exuberant and sensitive . . . gifts of bravura wit and imagination' Guardian
'Quite extraordinary . . . [Her] writing is often moving, exuberant and sensitive' Daily Telegraph
'Brimming with close observation . . . the sheer literary ambition on show is impressive . . . a highly original first novel' Spectator
Critics Review
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The Schoolhouse is taut, gripping and intensely moving right until the very last page. I truly couldn’t put Sophie Ward’s beautifully written novel down
Susannah Wise, author of This Fragile Earth -
The Schoolhouse is a real ‘stand-out-from-the-crowd’ book, with an absorbing plot from the get-go; part detective novel, part taut, cerebral thriller . . . A masterful rendition of the tensions and realities of human resilience and emotional frailty
Laura Carlin, author of The Wicked Cometh -
The Schoolhouse is a legit crime thriller: stylish, pacey and genuinely frightening . . . If only more Booker-recognised writers did stuff this fun
The Times -
A tense, taut drama that questions how childhood trauma affects adult behaviour
Good Housekeeping -
Queerness and deafness sit alongside themes of resilience and trust, making for an evocative, well-paced narrative that’s sure to win her new readers
Guardian -
Ward proves she can construct a compelling, fast-moving narrative (with an extended action-packed denouement). What’s best about her novels, however, is her gift for bringing characters to life, which means that whether her writing is disconcertingly strange or, as here, treads at times on over-familiar territory, it always delivers a real emotional impact.
The Telegraph
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