Synopsis
When Tash, daughter of a Russian oligarch, is sent to an English boarding school, she is new to the strange rituals of the girls there. Theirs is a world of strict pecking orders, eating disorders and Instagram angst. While she spends her time with the other girls at the lake and the stables, a hand-picked few are invited to join the Headmaster at his house for extra lessons. Then her friend Bianca mysteriously vanishes, and quickly the routines of her dorm-mates seem darker and more alien than ever before.
Oligarchy is the fierce new novel about power, privilege and peer pressure from the bestselling author of The End of Mr. Y.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Canongate Books
- ISBN: 9781786897794
- Number of pages: 224
- Dimensions: 240 x 147 x 24 mm
- Weight: 383g
- Languages: English
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Scarlett Thomas – Oligarchy
When Natasha arrives from Russia at her new boarding school in rural England, she struggles to adapt. Not only the foreign language, but the special langua... READ MORE
Delightfully twisty school story
'Sometimes she also prays for peace, and joy, and to be thin. Sometimes she even prays for the villagers, that they might become thin too.'
The thing - on... READ MORE
A confusing mess
‘The joy in eating went a long time ago, of course, but now there is not even joy in starving’.
Natasha is the daughter of a Russian Oligarch, sent to a b... READ MORE
Twisted school story
I'm grateful to Canongate for a free advance e-copy of Oligarchy via Netgalley, to consider for review. (Quotes below come from that copy, and may not refl... READ MORE
Unimpressed at the 2nd book Ive read by this author
A somewhat childish, innocent book for schoolgirls
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Funny, shocking, genius.
When Tash, daughter of a Russian oligarch, is sent to an English boarding school, she is quickly introduced to a world of eating disorders and teenage angs... READ MORE