{"product_id":"9780008561031","title":"Mrs S","description":"Author(s): Patrick, K, \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003eDate of Publication: 06\/06\/2024, \u003cbr\u003ePagination: 304 pages, \u003cbr\u003eSeries: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Fourth Estate Ltd, \u003cbr\u003e Published By: HarperCollins Publishers, \u003cbr\u003eBook Classification: Of specific Gay interest\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 200 x 130 x 20mm\u003cbr\u003eWeight: 212g\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780008561031\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn Observer Best Debut of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  A Granta Best Young British Novelist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘I loved this book’ JULIA ARMFIELD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Exhilarating’ MONICA HEISEY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'Astonishing' ANDREA LAWLOR\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'Should be on everyone's summer reading list'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e iNEWS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  'Scorching … One of our favourite reads'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e TIME OUT\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  A Guardian Essential Summer Read\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  A sensual debut novel of the forbidden love between a young woman and a headmaster’s wife, unfolding across a single a heatwave summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  In an elite English boarding school where the girls kiss the marble statue of the famous dead author who used to walk the halls, a young Australian woman arrives to take up the antiquated role of ‘matron’. There she meets Mrs S, the headmaster’s wife, a woman who is her polar opposite: assured, sophisticated, a paragon of femininity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Over the course of a long, restless heatwave, the matron finds herself irresistibly drawn ever closer into the older woman’s world with their unspoken desire blooming into an illicit affair of electric intensity. But, as the summer begins to fade, both know that a choice must finally be made.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Desire crackles through these pages like fire’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e TELEGRAPH\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘Wildly sexy … I kept forgetting to exhale’ CHARLOTTE MENDELSON\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘There’s nothing else like it out there’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e THE TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  'Compulsively readable … beautiful, brilliant'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e OBSERVER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘Moody, generous and brilliant’ JESSIE BURTON\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'Rare and thrilling' SARAH WINMAN\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46605811974381,"sku":"9780008561031","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/files\/9780008561031_34c9e08b-5a4d-42b5-9e1f-3f2f996412ef.jpg?v=1724783594","url":"https:\/\/steyningbookshop.info\/products\/9780008561031","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}