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"Journalism is not an auxiliary branch of public charity, Miss Sachs. Nor is it a private diary where idle adolescents dump their spiritual anxieties."
At St. Jude Academy, a prestigious and suffocating prep school on the New England coast, Andrea Sachs is seventeen, undisciplined, and comfortably convinced that raw talent is enough to get by. Surrounded by her close circle of friends and coasting through her senior year, her only real goal is surviving until graduation.
Enter Emily Charlton: thirty-four, sharp-tongued, fresh from the ruthless editorial circuit of London and New York, and utterly devoid of patience for adolescent sentimentality.
What begins as a fierce classroom humiliation quickly spirals into an unhealthy obsession—a desperate academic war to force an unyielding, married woman to look at her, even if the price is burning everything down.