Paperback edition of the latest novel from the author of "The Emperor's Children", featuring a teacher whose life is changed by the arrival of a new 8 year old boy to her class. 'This is a faultless, suspenseful novel' "Mail On Sunday"

Claire Messud is a recipient of Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The author of five other works of fiction including, most recently, The Burning Girl, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her family.