Books by Beth Gutcheon
“I feel almost protective of Beth Gutcheon. People don’t read as much of her as they should. Every time I go into a bookshop, I go to the G section and see what might be kicking around, because it’s actually quite hard to get hold of her books. The New Girls was her first novel. It’s about a group of five young women who go to an elite boarding school in Maine in 1960, and it follows their lives through high school and slightly beyond.” Read more...
The Best Boarding School Novels
Anbara Salam, Novelist
Interviews where books by Beth Gutcheon were recommended
The Best Boarding School Novels, recommended by Anbara Salam
Boarding schools make great settings for novels, says Anbara Salam, author of coming-of-age drama Belladonna. The combination of immense privilege with the claustrophobia of a closed society can create an intense pressure cooker atmosphere in which characters might be forged.
