Secrets and Lies

Ya I liked the book,contrary to what I rated it at first look,esp. the last chapters.Decent story and with lot of moral too.The novel is about 4 friends-girls,and their guilt ridden flashback from their school-days.It revolves around their lives and speaks of the common experiences of resentment and jealousy towards a new student which are common place in all schools.So the theme being universal one could sort of relate with it.

I liked the ease which which the author made the transition between narrating the two sub stories feel seamless.Great first-hand knowledge, into how life in a girls only school might be, was also pretty enlightening for me.But I still think the untold story of their headmistress would have been better or rather telling the story from Victoria Lamb's(their head mistress) point of view would have been better.

So overall a good experience from reading an altogether different story from what (little) I've read till now.The verses from A.E Houssmans poem were really beautiful and added charm to the story

I'll add this verse i think was written as Lilly's epitaph :

With rue my heart is laden
For golden friends I had,
For many a rose-lipt maiden
And many a lightfoot lad.

By brooks too broad for leaping
The lightfoot boys are laid;
The rose-lipt girls are sleeping
In fields where roses fade.