Obsessive friendships lead to tragedy in this early-twentieth-century novel about a charismatic schoolmistress, a na ve new teacher, and an impressionable student--with an afterword by Melissa Broder, author of Milk Fed and The Pisces. Clare Hartill is a brilliant, commanding educator at a private all-girls boarding school: the undisputed queen of her own small kingdom. But her tightly controlled world is disrupted...