Notes On A Scandal by Zoe Heller

And she knows, by now,not to go too far without me.

I read this book because I knew they were making a movie with Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench, and I thought it looked realy interesting. It's realy a great character study, about loneliness and manipulation. The main characters are complex, and the point of view of the story realy works; it makes you unconfortable with what you're reading and at the same time fascinated. Besides, the image of the characters is distorced already, which works terribly well. The storyline is gripping, original and twisted; you can feel something's wrong, but you don't know what. obviously, that makes you want to know, so it's a fast reading. The writing is great and is emotionally intense, though not in the normal way. The dark humor works. I really recommend this if you want a (very) dark, twisted book an interesting character study and a surprising plot.