Oligarchy : a novel /
Thomas, Scarlett, 1972-
Oligarchy : a novel / Scarlett Thomas. - 212 pages ; 24 cm.
This is a novel about power, privilege and peer pressure. 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.
9781786898029
Oligarchy--Fiction.
Boarding schools--Fiction.
Single-sex classes (Education)--Fiction.
Boarding school students--England--Fiction.
Peer pressure--Fiction.
Power (Social sciences)--Fiction.
823.92
Oligarchy : a novel / Scarlett Thomas. - 212 pages ; 24 cm.
This is a novel about power, privilege and peer pressure. 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.
9781786898029
Oligarchy--Fiction.
Boarding schools--Fiction.
Single-sex classes (Education)--Fiction.
Boarding school students--England--Fiction.
Peer pressure--Fiction.
Power (Social sciences)--Fiction.
823.92