As the first female head of school, Ms Buckfast is determined to make something of St Oswalds, herself, and the girls that now attend those hallowed halls. Previously a grammar school for boys, St Oswalds is now co-ed and has a new Head, Rebecca Buckfast, an ambitious woman. The story takes place in the context of St Oswalds Academy, an English public school with more tradition than its faded reputation would suggest. The author also has three cookbooks to her name, but her most notable work was the 1999 novel Chocolat. Her novels and short stories cover a diverse range of subject matter, including suspense, magic realism, mythology and historical fiction. Joanne Harris is an Anglo-French author, an Honorary Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge.
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