The Headmaster's Wife
Paperback Published on: 01/05/2014
Price: £12.99
Synopsis
Arthur Winthrop is a middle-aged headmaster at an elite prep school in Vermont. When he is arrested for an act that is incredibly out of character, the strait-laced, married headmaster confesses to a much more serious crime.
Arthur reveals that he has had a passionate affair with a scholarship student called Betsy Pappas. But Betsy is a fickle and precocious teenager. When she switches her attentions to a classmate, Arthur's passion for Betsy turns, by degrees, into something far darker. Now Arthur must tell the truth about what happened to Betsy. But can Arthur's version of events be trusted - or is the reality much more complex and unnerving?
The Headmaster's Wife is a dark, sinuous and compelling novel about marriage and obsessive love.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Atlantic Books
- ISBN: 9781782391715
- Number of pages: 288
- Dimensions: 210 x 147 x 25 mm
- Languages: English
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Absolutely brilliant read
The minute I started reading this book, I couldn’t put it down. It keeps you going, through all the twists and turns, right through to the end.
Arthur Wint... READ MORE
Brilliant Mystery
The Headmaster’s Wife Simply Stunning
Like all good stories this has a beginning a middle and an end and have called the three parts; Acrimony, Expectatio... READ MORE
Utterly compelling!
What a great story - completely absorbing and utterly compelling! Had I not had to go to work everyday, I would have devoured this book in one sitting!
It ... READ MORE
The Headmasters Wife an interesting read
The Headmasters wife
This book is written in three parts the first Acrimony is were Arthur the headmaster of a boarding school is found running naked thro... READ MORE
Compelling
Middle-aged and seemingly staid headmaster Arthur Winthorp is arrested in New York for an inexplicably out of character act, but that appears to the least ... READ MORE
50 Shades of Lolita? NO!
The Headmaster’s Wife Thomas Christopher Greene
I received an uncorrected bound proof copy of this novel from Real Readers. The writer was unfamiliar to m... READ MORE
Beautifully written
This is a beautifully written story and I found I was compelled to keep reading.
Arthur Winthorp like his father was a headmaster of an Elite school – the... READ MORE
Gripping story of loss and grief
This is a standout novel that at times has you open mouthed as the true nature of the story is slowly revealed. What appears at first to be the story of an... READ MORE
Contrary to others, I just didn't get it...
My review seems to be in contrast to the majority - I just didn't get it. The book is narrated for the first 120 pages or so by the Headteacher who it seem... READ MORE
The Headmaster's Wife
The Headmaster’s Wife is the story of Arthur Winthrop, a middle-aged headmaster at a Boarding School in Vermont and his wife Elizabeth. The story is divide... READ MORE
A Story of Grief
The reader meets Arthur Winthrop as he arrives at Central Park West very early on a winter's morning. Arthur is the esteemed Headmaster of Lancaster Colleg... READ MORE
Psychological masterpiece, I loved it!
An unexpectedly gripping tale of lust, betrayal, regret and circumstance, the Headmaster’s Wife begins as a seemingly predictable narrative, however unfold... READ MORE