Mrs S by K. Patrick

A newly arrived Australian butch lesbian takes a job as a matron at an elite English girls’ boarding school and becomes consumed by a clandestine affair with the head’s wife. As the summer term swelters, the pressures of institutional hierarchy, class, and constant surveillance sharpen her longing and self-scrutiny, drawing her into risky transgressions and a reckoning with identity, desire, and the costs of stepping beyond the rules.

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