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Translator: Qiu Shufang
Author: Zoey Heller

Subtitle: A female story about passion and depression, jealousy and complacency, friendship and loneliness.
ISBN: 9787544701723Pages : 208Price :
18.8Publisher
: Yilin
Press Lonely female stories. / Zhuoyi Heller / Yilin Press Recommendation: Introduction · · · · · 40-year-old female teacher Shiba and 15-year-old male student Connery fell in love. boy crime" was in disrepute. The narrator of the novel is Shiba's colleague, teacher Barbara, a lonely, sensitive, and literary old maid. Barbara decides to defend Sheba, but she does not know that her pen not only leaks Sheba's secret, but also her own secret... The novel was nominated for the 2003 British Booker Award finalist. The film adaptation of the same name was nominated for 4 Oscars at the 79th Academy Awards in 2007: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best Score. About the Author · · · · · Zöe Heller, born in London, journalist and writer. His work has appeared in The Sunday Independent, The Sunday Times, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The Times Literary Supplement, etc. Moved to New York in 1993. In 2002, he won the British "Columnist of the Year" award for his column in The Daily Telegraph. In 2003, his novel "Notes on a Scandal" was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the highest award for British fiction.














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  • Crawford 2022-04-24 07:01:07

    This story tells us: the bigger the hole is dug, the more tiring it is to fill. ps: Five-star acting and soundtrack.

  • Amely 2022-03-24 09:01:58

    In fact, the heroine is Barbara, the terrible old LES.

Notes on a Scandal quotes

  • [first lines]

    Barbara Covett: [voiceover of Barbara writing in her diary] People trust me with their secrets. But who do I trust with mine? You, only you.

  • [Barbara demands that Sheba must come with her to see her cat put down. Richard tells her to get back in the car so they can go see their son in his school play]

    Sheba Hart: [to Richard] Give me a minute, will you? I can handle this.

    Barbara Covett: Oh, I'm to be "handled", am I? Like toxic waste. You see me on sufference. I'm an imposition to be tolerated.