A review by smalltownbookmom
Madam by Phoebe Wynne

3.0

This modern gothic had a great creepy mystery at its core but I felt it dragged a bit and it just didn't grab me the way I had hoped. Rose Christie arrives as a young Classics teacher at Caldonbrae Hall, a 150 year old Scottish girls' boarding school. From the beginning she receives a less than warm welcome from the teachers and students and she quickly detects that all is not as it appears in these hallowed halls. Set in the 1990s, this school is very much stuck in its aristocratic traditions and ideologies, where girls are treated as property for creating new alliances. Parts of this were stronger than others but I found it could have used some editing in the middle. Just an okay read for me. The narrator did a really good job with the Scottish accents and I enjoyed that part a lot.