num_pages: 258
description: 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.
language: English
title: What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]
titlecomplete: What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]
characters: Barbara Covett, Steven Connolly, Bathsheba Hart
genres: Audiobook, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Drama, Literature, Adult, British Literature, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 22597
places: England
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist
publisher: Picador