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Violence
Some
Mysterious deaths and some thriller violence
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief adult content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Gothic psychological atmosphere; the weight of long-held secrets and the way the past surfaces
What this book is about
Jane Hudson returns to Heart Lake School for Girls as a Latin teacher, twenty years after three of her classmates drowned in the lake. When students begin dying in ways that mirror those old deaths, Jane must confront what she's been hiding about what actually happened. Goodman's atmospheric Gothic mystery is rich in classical allusions and academic setting.
Notes for sensitive readers
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Death of students
Gothic psychological atmosphere
Dark boarding school setting
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