Mrs S. May 21 the headmaster's wife

the headmaster's wife

now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition

to the recovery of once-threatened native bird species in action

Katherine Gallagher

This account of his experiences

Mrs S. May 21 the headmaster's wifeIn an elite English boarding school where the girls kiss the marble statue of the famous dead author who used to walk the halls, a young Australian woman arrives to take up the antiquated role of 'matron'. There she meets Mrs S, the headmaster's wife, a woman who is her polar opposite: assured, sophisticated, a paragon of femininity. Over the course of a long, restless heatwave, the matron finds herself irresistibly drawn ever closer into the older