Oligarchy

'Hugely enjoyable' Observer
'Wickedly funny' The Times

When Tash, daughter of a Russian oligarch, is sent to an English boarding school, she is new to the strange rituals of the girls there. Theirs is a world of strict pecking orders, eating disorders and Instagram angst.

While she spends her time at the lake and the stables, a few hand-picked girls are invited to join the Headmaster at his house for extra lessons. Then her friend Bianca mysteriously vanishes, and the routines of her dormmates seem darker and more alien than ever before.


Genre: Literary Fiction

"An intricate black jewel of a novel. Weeks later I'm still thinking about it." - Kirsty Logan

"The savagery of a private girls' school in England is not to be underestimated and never to be forgotten upon reading Oligarchy, Scarlett Thomas’s scathing and brilliantly written novel of wealth and vanity run terribly amok." - Elizabeth McKenzie

"Oligarchy is a delicious slap in the face?stunningly intelligent, alarmingly modern, hilariously funny, deeply pertinent, true, fantastical and several hankies' worth of poignant." - Louisa Young