Can't remember book (combined mythology and college maybe???)

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Years ago (easily could have been more than ten, perhaps even twenty), I read a book about a girl, who was going to college or perhaps a private boarding school. It *might* have been in Britain. Or New England? Somehow, her everyday life was getting crossed up in mythology or paganism come to life. I feel like there might have been something to do with Bacchus. Maybe...! There was also a boy, who might have actually been Pan (or someone like Pan) and something to do with birth control. I'm not sure this was a romance, probably it was not. It was probably some sort of young adult book.

I am laughing at myself because I realize how little this is to go on. But it has been driving me crazy for years, so I thought I would give it a shot.

Thank you!

[Ottilie]

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[[deleted user]]

That is not it, but thank you! I might read that one anyway. :-)

[Ottilie]

Haha I didn't think so, but I wasn't sure.

[willaful]

The birth control mention makes me pretty sure it's Pamela Dean's

[Elizabeth]

Yup. I was going to say Tam Lin. Great book.

[[deleted user]]

Hi! Thank you to all of you. It is for sure not Secret History because I remember and love that book! But it definitely has some similarities to Secret History. I am going to check out Tam Lin. It is not ringing any bells yet, but that does not mean it's not it...

[[deleted user]]

I now think it was Tam Lin by Pamela Dean! I have ordered it from Amazon and can't wait to reread it. Thank you again to all of you.