What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal

An unforgiving, cold-eyed, wickedly beautiful little book. A warning: if you have ever been crushingly lonely -- particularly if you have, on occasion, feebly attempted to rationalize that loneliness as a burden of your superior and isolating intelligence -- then I suspect that you, like me, will fe......more

4.5 Stars. This is so good!! Passion, Jealousy, Loneliness, Friendship, Forbidden relationship, Manipulation, And brilliant story telling. I watched the film years ago and the book is even better. ‘I’m not sure I could categorize what this is. People always want to boil these things down, don’t they ?......more

Notes on a Scandal is an extremely sordid story, narrated by a totally unlikeable (and unreliable?) narrator – dealing with an illicit sexual affair between a frustrated middle-aged schoolteacher and a disadvantaged teenage student with learning difficulties. Almost all of the dramatis personae are......more