Prep, by Curtis Sittenfeld September 14, 2006
Posted by CamdenKiwi in : Reviews , trackbackStrangely reminiscent of the school stories I read as a child, this is not Malory Towers, by a very long way. Our heroine, Lee Fiora, desperately wants to rise above her mundane existance, and wins a scholarship to an exclusive boarding school. She has the intelligence to deal with it, just, but never entirely develops the maturity to cope without losing her personal integrity, although we are left hoping that she will.
The school is an intense environment of petty intrigues, cliques, rituals and odd traditions which serve to bind the community of privileged youngsters. Its a very detailed book, drawing you in to the richly-drawn characters, absorbing and unputdownable. Anyone who has ever been to high school will recognise something here.
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