num_pages: 258
description: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Now a Major Motion Picture 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 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.
language: English
title: Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking?
titlecomplete: Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking?
characters: Barbara Covett, Steven Connolly, Bathsheba Hart
genres: Audiobook, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Drama, Literature, Adult, British Literature, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 22598
places: England
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist
publisher: Picador