TY - BOOK AU - Thomas,Scarlett TI - Oligarchy: a novel SN - 9781786898029 U1 - 823.92 23 PY - 2019/// CY - Edinburgh PB - Canongate Books Ltd KW - Oligarchy KW - Fiction KW - Boarding schools KW - Single-sex classes (Education) KW - Boarding school students KW - England KW - Peer pressure KW - Power (Social sciences) N2 - 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 ER -