Mrs S by Patrick, K

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Author: Patrick, KOf specific Gay interestPublished on 6 June 2024 by HarperCollins Publishers (Fourth Estate Ltd) in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 304 pages200 x 130 x 20 | 214g
An Observer Best Debut of the YearA Granta Best Young British NovelistI loved this book JULIA ARMFIELDExhilarating MONICA HEISEYAstonishing ANDREA LAWLORShould be on everyones summer reading listiNEWSScorching One of our favourite readsTIME OUTA Guardian Essential Summer ReadA sensual debut novel of the forbidden love between a young woman and a headmasters wife, unfolding across a single heatwave summer.In an elite English boarding school where the girls kiss the marble statue of the famous dead author who used to walk the halls, a young Australian woman arrives to take up the antiquated role of matron. There she meets Mrs S, the headmasters wife, a woman who is her polar opposite: assured, sophisticated, a paragon of femininity.Over the course of a long, restless heatwave, the matron finds herself irresistibly drawn ever closer into the older womans world with their unspoken desire blooming into an illicit affair of electric intensity. But, as the summer begins to fade, both know that a choice must finally be made.Desire crackles through these pages like fireTELEGRAPHWildly sexy I kept forgetting to exhale CHARLOTTE MENDELSONTheres nothing else like it out thereTHE TIMESCompulsively readable beautiful, brilliantOBSERVERMoody, generous and brilliant JESSIE BURTONRare and thrilling SARAH WINMAN