Review: The Headmaster's Wife

The Headmaster's Wife by Thomas Christopher Greene
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I picked this book up from the Quick Choice section in my local library, and if I'm completely honest, I chose it simply because of the title. I seem to have a passion about reading books about Schools, which I think stems back to my childhood when I read and fell in love with the Mallory Towers books.

I didn't know what the story involved, and so fell into the unknown, which was a lovely treat and I wasn't left disappointed.

The book is in three parts, Acrimony, Expectations and After. When I read the first part, which tells the story of Arthur Winthrop, a middle aged Headmaster, who is found wondering Central Park naked, I loved him as a character and felt great sympathy for him. I must admit, that I did figure out one little twist in the first part straight away, but the other one at the end of that part of the book made me gasp!

Then came Expectations, which tells the story from the point of view of his wife Elizabeth, and it was this part that I absolutely raced through, I couldn't turn the pages quick enough, and from here on in, I finished the book as I couldn't bear to put it down without knowing what really happened.

After, is the part of the book that ties up all the loose ends, which was really nice, as I hate those books that just leave you dangling at the end!!

The Headmaster's Wife is a book that tells the story of a cold, loveless marriage, a tragedy which tears two people in different directions, and takes you to the horrible side of grief.

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