Set within a girls' boarding school in the 1920s, this is the story of
petty treachery and deceits which culminate in violence and the
realization of change. Long light evenings, swimming and tennis, striped
cotton frocks. It's summer term at Raeburn. New arrival Constance King
hates her boarding school on sight, yet dreams of being accepted by the
other girls. Instead, she finds a ferment of frustrated hopes mingled
with excited expectations.
Angela Lambert was born in 1940 and educated at boarding school in
Sussex and then at St Hilda's College, Oxford where she read PPE. She
worked for a cabinet minister before becoming a journalist in 1969. She
has been a television reporter with ITN and Thames Television, and
joined the newly formed Independent in 1988. She now writes for the
Sunday Telegraph.
Angela Lambert has three grown-up children and six grandchildren; she
lives with her partner, Tony Price, in London and France. She is the
author of six previous novels including A Rather English Marriage, which
has been made into an award-winning film starring Tom Courtenay, Joanna
Lumley and Albert Finney.
