500 Great Books By Women discussion

What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal] , Zoë Heller, 2003, England, NOVEL

"Notes on a Scandal is a multi-layered story. While keeping up with the pretense of titillating readers with the lurid details of a much older woman's romance with an adolescent boy, it skilfully but subtly exposes the hypocrisy practiced by each one of its characters..."

(Samadrita, review)

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This is a fascinating counterpoint to Lolita: the sexes are reversed, which makes more difference to how one reacts than it perhaps should, and there's an extra layer from another predatory relationship.

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The film, starring Judi Dench, is also worth seeing.

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