# Havoc

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- Book: [Havoc](https://www.bookquiver.com/rebecca-wait/havoc) ([Havoc.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/rebecca-wait/havoc.md))
- Authors: [Rebecca Wait](https://www.bookquiver.com/rebecca-wait)
- Publisher: riverrun
- ISBN: 978-15-2943-445-3
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2025-07-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

'A LABYRINTHINE MYSTERY OF EMOTIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY' Jo Brand 'DELIRIOUS AND REWARDING' Guardian 'UNMISSABLE' Woman's Weekly Fleeing Scotland in the wake of family disgrace, 16-year-old Ida Campbell secures a scholarship at a failing girls' boarding school on a remote part of the south English coast. Despite the eccentricities of her new Headmistress, who warns her of the dangers of the Cold War and the ever-present threat of the bomb, St Anne's seems like a refuge to Ida. But all this is about to change. For a start, her new room-mate is the infamous Louise Adler, potential arsonist and hardened outcast. Meanwhile, the geography teacher Eleanor Alston, in her late thirties, a disastrous love affair in her wake, faces the new term with weary resignation. But the fragile ecosystem of the school is disrupted by the arrival of a new teacher, Matthew Langfield. Eleanor has an uneasy feeling he is not who he says he is. And things only get worse when a mysterious sickness starts to spread throughout the school, causing strange limb jerks and seizures among the pupils. What is happening to the girls of St Anne's? Could there be a poisoner among them? Is Ida's scholarship really an escape, or is it instead a new nightmare? READERS ARE LOVING HAVOC: 'Superb. Brilliantly funny, at times extremely poignant' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Another beautifully written book by Rebecca' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Utterly glorious, moving, enthralling and witty. I am so cross I have finished it' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I absolutely loved the humour in this book. Bonus points for the Cold War references' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Entertaining and humorous' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐