Books like The Chatham School Affair
Henry Griswald, an old lawyer in a Cape Cod town, remembers 1926, when his father hired Elizabeth Channing, a beautiful young art teacher, at the boys' school he ran, and what followed.
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A Dark-Adapted Eye
Decades later, Faith Severn is asked by a writer to remember her aunt Vera Hillyard, hanged in 1950 for murder, and the family secrets of their wartime summers.
Before I Go to Sleep
Every morning Christine Lucas wakes up with no memory of the last twenty years, and the man beside her has to explain that he is her husband, until she finds a journal she has been keeping in secret.
A Separate Peace
A New England boys' school in the last summer of the Second World War, and a narrator who lives the rest of his life trying to understand what he did on a tree branch to the boy he loved.
The Beautiful and Damned
A glamorous New York couple drinks and drifts their way through the Jazz Age while waiting for a grandfather's inheritance.
While I Was Gone
Jo Becker, a veterinarian in a small Massachusetts town married to a minister, is unsettled when Eli Mayhew, who shared a Cambridge house with her in the 1960s, turns up at her practice, bringing back the housemate who was murdered there.
The House in the Pines
Seven years after her best friend died suddenly in front of a strange young man named Frank, Maya, now in Boston and quietly going through withdrawal, sees a video online of another woman collapsing in Frank's company.
Desire Under the Elms
A play: on a stony New England farm in 1850, Ephraim Cabot, seventy-five, brings home a young third wife, Abbie, to the fury of his son Eben, who believes the farm is his.
Ethan Frome
A visiting engineer pieces together the story of Ethan Frome, a farmer in a bleak Massachusetts village, his sickly, suspicious wife and her young cousin who came to help keep house.
The Auctioneer
In Harlowe, a farming town in New Hampshire, a charming newcomer named Perly Dunsmore starts holding weekly auctions for the police fund, and the townspeople are asked to give a little more each time.
We Were Liars
Cadence Sinclair Eastman spends every summer on her rich family's private island off Massachusetts with her cousins and their friend Gat, until an accident in her fifteenth summer leaves her with crippling headaches and no memory of what happened.
Mourning Becomes Electra
A play in three parts setting the Oresteia in New England just after the Civil War: General Ezra Mannon comes home to a wife who hates him and a daughter who adores him.
Nineteen Minutes
In nineteen minutes, seventeen-year-old Peter Houghton, bullied since kindergarten, brings guns to his New Hampshire high school, and the town tries to understand how it happened, while the judge assigned to the case has a daughter who was there and says she cannot remember.