A review by ldv
Alone in the Classroom by Elizabeth Hay

3.0

Rather pastoral, with so much nature in the descriptions. Meanders a bit, not everything is nearly chronological or nearly laid out. Yet the disconnects are artful in how they pick up and drop off, what is said and unsaid. Not a book to pick and put down often, or one could lose the thread and names or events that weave through the story. Is it about Connie, the aunt? Parley Burns, the pervert principal? Michael, the student with dyslexia? Or the narrator, Anne Elizabeth? (And is this based on reality or pure fiction?)