Summary

[G.H.]

Miss Oliver’s School for Girls, a boarding school, beloved of its alumnae and students for empowering their lives, is under attack, and it is up to Rachel Bickham, the young African-American headmistress, to defend it, in her very first year.

Rachel can be combative when her blood is up, and she’s not about to let the school, with its curriculum designed by women for the way women learn, be hurt by the right-wing talk show host who reveals a sex scandal involving one of the students. He’s proxy for every insult to women since time began, and she fights him with a daring strategy that puts her job on the line.

But when she fails to confront the collapsed performance of the school’s most celebrated teacher, she learns that it is not the sensational problems, but the quiet ones at the core that threaten the most.