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[quote=Anonymous]I just returned it on Audible. It was completely unreadable (in-listenable). The narrator (aka author’s obvious proxy) is so full of contempt for everyone and everything that the book exudes misery. She hates her colleagues, she hates school parents, she hates her mother, she hates her own DAUGHTER. No thanks. There’s no dirt or secret insight here. I say this as someone who’s a big fan of Roman a clefs and the sub-sub-genre of “novels about famous schools”. This one does not bring the goods. The author sure tried, but the effect is laughable. Representative example overreach: “The curriculum is fine,” said Mrs X. Ms. Narrator knew that this is private school parent speak for ‘Don’t change anything.’ Private school parent speak, lol! Who knew we were all conversing in it and that it sounds exactly like vernacular English?![/quote]
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