School's Out

About this book

A vertiginous black comedy by one of Frances most exciting new novelists Winner of Frances most prestigious prize for a first novel Schools Out is a gripping re-imagining of Lord of the Flies at once scarier and funnier than its prototype. When high school teacher ric Capadis is found dead an apparent suicide his friend Pierre Hoffman takes over his class. The students in 9F are well behaved yet oddly menacing. Hoffmans colleagues warn him to watch out for them. But its only when he agrees to accompany his charges on a school trip to the Normandy coast that he begins to understand the reason for their bizarre solidarity. Schools Out is a triumph of nihilism and surreal wit.