# The Headmaster's Wife

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- Book: [The Headmaster's Wife](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-christopher-greene/the-headmasters-wife) ([The Headmaster's Wife.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-christopher-greene/the-headmasters-wife.md))
- Authors: [Thomas Christopher Greene](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-christopher-greene)
- Publisher: corvus
- ISBN: 978-17-8239-171-5
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2014-05-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Arthur Winthrop is a middle-aged headmaster at an elite prep school in Vermont. When he is arrested for an act that is incredibly out of character, the strait-laced, married headmaster confesses to a much more serious crime. Arthur reveals that he has had a passionate affair with a scholarship student called Betsy Pappas. But Betsy is a fickle and precocious teenager. When she switches her attentions to a classmate, Arthur’s passion for Betsy turns, by degrees, into something far darker. Now Arthur must tell the truth about what happened to Betsy. But can Arthur’s version of events be trusted – or is the reality much more complex and unnerving? The Headmaster’s Wife is a dark, sinuous and compelling novel about marriage and obsessive love.