BOOK

Havoc

Wait, Rebecca, author

2025

Overview

Fleeing Scotland in the wake of family disgrace, 16-year-old Ida Campbell secures a scholarship at a failing girls' boarding school on a remote part of the south English coast. Despite the eccentricities of her new Headmistress, who warns her of the dangers of the Cold War and the ever-present threat of the bomb, St Anne's seems like a refuge to Ida. But all this is about to change. For a start, her new room-mate is the infamous Louise Adler, potential arsonist and hardened outcast. Meanwhile, the geography teacher Eleanor Alston, in her late thirties, a disastrous love affair in her wake, faces the new term with weary resignation. But the fragile ecosystem of the school is disrupted by the arrival of a new teacher, Matthew Langfield. Eleanor has an uneasy feeling he is not who he says he is. And things only get worse when a mysterious sickness starts to spread throughout the school, causing strange limb jerks and seizures among the pupils. What is happening to the girls of St Anne's? Could there be a poisoner among them? Is Ida's scholarship really an escape, or is it instead a new nightmare?

• Publisher: riverrun
• Subject: Boarding schools England Fiction. / Girls' schools England Fiction. / Scholarships Fiction. / Cold War Fiction. / Teenagers Fiction. / Boarding school students England Fiction. / Nineteen eighties Fiction. / England Fiction.
• ISBN: 9781529434453, 1529434459, 9781529434460, 1529434467

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR6123.A377 H38 2025	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE