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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight starring Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench. Schoolteacher Barbara Covett has led a solitary life until Sheba Hart, the new art teacher at St. George's, befriends her. But even as their relationship develops, so too does another: Sheba has begun an illicit affair with an underage male student. When the scandal turns into a media circus, Barbara decides to write an account in her friend's defense --and ends up revealing not only Sheba's secrets, but also her own.
希芭是伦敦圣乔治中学新进的艺术老师。在中学的任教让她逃离了儿女，以及无趣的老丈夫。而同事芭芭拉，虽然个性刻薄又伶牙俐齿，却独对希芭产生了好感。在一次芭芭拉为希芭解决课堂争吵事件后，两人的关系更为亲近。芭芭拉意外发现了希芭与15岁男学生的不伦师生恋，并且发现希芭将这段恋情详细的写入日记。而随着芭芭拉对希芭与日俱增的独占欲，这本日记成为了芭芭拉操纵希芭的最佳武器。
About Author
Zoe Heller was born in London. Her work as a feature writer, critic, and columnist has appeared in The Independent on Sunday, The London Sunday Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The London Review of Books, Esquire, The New Republic, and The Times Literary Supplement. She currently writes a weekly column for the London Telegraph, for which she won the 2002 British Press Award for Columnist of the Year. She has lived in New York since 1993.
卓伊·海勒，生于伦敦，记者、专栏作家。作品散见于《星期日独立报》、《星期日泰晤士报》、《名利场》、《纽约客》、《泰晤士报文学增刊》等。2002年因《每日电讯报》的专栏获得英国“年度专栏作家”奖。1993年后迁居纽约。
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