Dismissal

A prestigious school. A vanished student. Four lives about to unravel.

‘I was captured to the end!’ KATE ATKINSON

‘An intelligent debut’ GABRIELLE ZEVIN

It is decades since Ana Silva vanished from Thorpe School. The rumours and speculation have faded, and everyone seems to accept the simplest explanation: she ran away.

Then English teacher Bill Hazzard dies, and a shocking confession comes to light.

Now, over the course of a single school day, four people must confront the roles they played in Ana’s fate. The compromises they made. The lies they tried to ignore. The memories they thought they had left behind.

Across forty years, their stories carry them from Connecticut mansions to Swiss lakes and Cape Cod villages. But no matter how far their paths stray from the school grounds, their shared past reverberates into the present, as events at Thorpe take a dangerous new turn.

‘An instant classic, taking its place alongside The Secret History and The God of the Woods’ EMMA STONEX