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Havoc

By: Rebecca Wait
Narrated by: Jacqui Bardelang
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'A LABYRINTHINE MYSTERY OF EMOTIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY' Jo Brand
'DELIRIOUS AND REWARDING' Guardian
'UNMISSABLE' Woman's Weekly

Fleeing Scotland in the wake of family disgrace, 16-year-old Ida Campbell secures a scholarship at a failing girls' boarding school on a remote part of the south English coast. Despite the eccentricities of her new Headmistress, who warns her of the dangers of the Cold War and the ever-present threat of the bomb, St Anne's seems like a refuge to Ida. But all this is about to change. For a start, her new room-mate is the infamous Louise Adler, potential arsonist and hardened outcast.

Meanwhile, the geography teacher Eleanor Alston, in her late thirties, a disastrous love affair in her wake, faces the new term with weary resignation. But the fragile ecosystem of the school is disrupted by the arrival of a new teacher, Matthew Langfield. Eleanor has an uneasy feeling he is not who he says he is.

And things only get worse when a mysterious sickness starts to spread throughout the school, causing strange limb jerks and seizures among the pupils. What is happening to the girls of St Anne's? Could there be a poisoner among them? Is Ida's scholarship really an escape, or is it instead a new nightmare?©2025 Rebecca Wait (P)2025 Quercus Publishing Coming of Age Dark Humour Friendship Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Funny Witty
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Loved every minute of this book. Many laugh out loud moments. Excellent storyline and characters. Read this after finishing Wait’s “I’m sorry you feel that way” - which is also fantastic. I thought the narration was excellent as well (on both books).

Laugh out loud funny

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story and narrative were fine but the starting words of the sentences were strangely cut short in the latter chapters.

amusing

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The reader is oddly stilted and mispronounces quite a few words. The story is unusual and quite fun, but the comic set pieces - e.g. the school play - are not well done and quite tedious.

Unusual story that needs a better reader

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A truly terribly narration. The actor decided to put on silly voices for virtually everyone and couldn’t do a Scottish accent to save her life. Such an awful shame.

Good book, awful narration

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A brilliantly written story which will have you laughing as you try to figure out who’s done what and what’ll happen next

Funny & dark mystery - recommend!

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