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Flanders Point

Jacquie Gordon

1997336 pagesabout 5–8 hours
1997
first published
  • 1997St. Martin's Press · 336 pages · ENGISBN 9780312155315
  • 2014St. Martin's Press · ENGISBN 9781466881082

Flanders Point is a spit of land on the Connecticut shore of Long Island Sound, the site of a small, financially troubled girls' prep school called Haddam. To this school comes Charlotte Delafield, a gawky teen hoping to surmount the aftermath of her parents' difficult divorce, and Brian Parton, a restless young writer and English teacher. Through the everyday events of Charlotte's senior year - conflicts and misunderstandings in the classroom, as well as flashes of inspiration and learning, an annual outdoor Shakespeare production, and walks in the still, wild marshland of Flanders Point - the two find themselves drawn to each other. Under increasing emotional pressure, the barrier between student and teacher cracks but does not break - until graduation day.

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