The Getting of Wisdom
by Henry Handel Richardson
296 pages~5 hrs
“At this school, the most important lesson isn't in the books—it's how to lie.”
Laura Rambotham is a brilliant misfit thrust into the stifling social hierarchies of an elite Melbourne boarding school. To navigate a world built on snobbery and artifice, she must trade her rural innocence for a calculated mastery of deception.
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