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Isobel lives an isolated life in North London, working at a nearby library. She feels safe if she keeps to her routines and doesn't let her thoughts stray too far into the past. But a newspaper photograph of a missing local schoolgirl and a letter from her old teacher are all it takes for her ordinary, careful armour to become overwhelmed and the trauma of what happened when she was a pupil at The Schoolhouse to return.
The Schoolhouse was different - one of the 1970s experimental schools that were a reaction to the formal methods of the past. The usual rules did not apply, and life there was a dark interplay of freedom and violence, adventure and fear. Only her teenage diary recorded what happened, but the truth is coming for her and everything she has tried to protect is put at risk.
Set between the past and the present, The Schoolhouse is a masterful and gripping novel about childhood, secrets and trust.
'A compelling, fast-moving narrative . . . delivers real emotional
impact' Telegraph 'A literary provocateur' Guardian Isobel lives an
isolated life in North London, working at a nearby library. She
feels safe if she keeps to her routines and doesn't let her
thoughts stray too far into the past. But a newspaper photograph of
a missing local schoolgirl and a letter from her old teacher are
all it takes for her ordinary, careful armour to become overwhelmed
and the trauma of what happened when she was a pupil at The
Schoolhouse to return. The Schoolhouse was different - one of the
1970s experimental schools that were a reaction to the formal
methods of the past. The usual rules did not apply, and life there
was a dark interplay of freedom and violence, adventure and fear.
Only her teenage diary recorded what happened, but the truth is
coming for her and everything she has tried to protect is put at
risk. Set between the past and the present, The Schoolhouse is a
masterful and gripping novel about childhood, secrets and trust.
Shakespeare is revered as the greatest writer in the English
language, yet education reform in the English-speaking world is
informed primarily by the 'market order', rather than the kind of
humanism we might associate with Shakespeare. By considering
Shakespeare's dramatisation of the principles that inform
neoliberalism, this book makes an important contribution to the
debate on the moral failure of the market mechanism in schools and
higher education systems that have adopted neoliberal policy. The
utility of Shakespeare's plays as a means to explore our present
socio-economic system has long been acknowledged. As a Renaissance
playwright located at the junction between feudalism and
capitalism, Shakespeare was uniquely positioned to reflect upon the
nascent market order. As a result, this book utilises six of his
plays to assess the impact of neoliberalism on education. Drawing
from examples of education policy from the UK and North America, it
demonstrates that the alleged innovation of the market order is
premised upon ideas that are rejected by Shakespeare, and it
advocates Shakespeare's humanism as a corrective to the failings of
neoliberal education policy. Using Shakespeare's Plays to Explore
Education Policy Today will be of key interest to researchers,
academics and students in the fields of education policy and
politics, educational reform, social and economic theory, English
literature and Shakespeare.
'A compelling, fast-moving narrative . . . delivers real emotional
impact' Telegraph 'A literary provocateur' Guardian Isobel lives an
isolated life in North London, working at a nearby library. She
feels safe if she keeps to her routines and doesn't let her
thoughts stray too far into the past. But a newspaper photograph of
a missing local schoolgirl and a letter from her old teacher are
all it takes for her ordinary, careful armour to become overwhelmed
and the trauma of what happened when she was a pupil at The
Schoolhouse to return. The Schoolhouse was different - one of the
1970s experimental schools that were a reaction to the formal
methods of the past. The usual rules did not apply, and life there
was a dark interplay of freedom and violence, adventure and fear.
Only her teenage diary recorded what happened, but the truth is
coming for her and everything she has tried to protect is put at
risk. Set between the past and the present, The Schoolhouse is a
masterful and gripping novel about childhood, secrets and trust.
Shakespeare is revered as the greatest writer in the English
language, yet education reform in the English-speaking world is
informed primarily by the 'market order', rather than the kind of
humanism we might associate with Shakespeare. By considering
Shakespeare's dramatisation of the principles that inform
neoliberalism, this book makes an important contribution to the
debate on the moral failure of the market mechanism in schools and
higher education systems that have adopted neoliberal policy. The
utility of Shakespeare's plays as a means to explore our present
socio-economic system has long been acknowledged. As a Renaissance
playwright located at the junction between feudalism and
capitalism, Shakespeare was uniquely positioned to reflect upon the
nascent market order. As a result, this book utilises six of his
plays to assess the impact of neoliberalism on education. Drawing
from examples of education policy from the UK and North America, it
demonstrates that the alleged innovation of the market order is
premised upon ideas that are rejected by Shakespeare, and it
advocates Shakespeare's humanism as a corrective to the failings of
neoliberal education policy. Using Shakespeare's Plays to Explore
Education Policy Today will be of key interest to researchers,
academics and students in the fields of education policy and
politics, educational reform, social and economic theory, English
literature and Shakespeare.
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 Longlisted for the Desmond
Eliot Prize 2020 Longlisted for the Polari Prize 2021 Featuring on
BBC 2's Between the Covers 'Sophie Ward is a dazzling talent who
writes like a modern-day F Scott Fitzgerald' Elizabeth Day, author
of How To Fail 'An act of such breath-taking imagination, daring
and detail that the journey we are on is believable and the debate
in the mind non-stop. There are elements of Doris Lessing in the
writing - a huge emerging talent here' Fiona Shaw 'A towering
literary achievement' Ruth Hogan, author of The Keeper of Lost
Things Rachel and Eliza are planning their future together. One
night in bed Rachel wakes up terrified and tells Eliza that an ant
has crawled into her eye and is stuck there. Rachel is certain;
Eliza, a scientist, is sceptical. Suddenly their entire
relationship is called into question. What follows is a uniquely
imaginitive sequence of interlinked stories ranging across time,
place and perspective to form a sparkling philosophical tale of
love, lost and found across the universe.
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