Notes on a Scandal movie

A pottery teacher enters into an affair with one of her students, causing upheaval in her personal and professional lives.

Notes on a Scandal (What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal in the United States) is a 2003 novel by Zoë Heller. It is about a female teacher at a London comprehensive school who begins an affair with one of her underage pupils. The novel was shortlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Prize.A film version, with the same title, was released in 2006 and stars Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett.Plot introductionThe novel is presented to the reader in the form of a manuscript written by Barbara Covett, a history teacher in her early sixties who has set herself the task of minutely recording all the details of the case. Spanning a period of almost two years, her manuscript starts in the autumn of 1996, when she encounters for the first time Sheba Hart, the new pottery teacher at St Georges, where Covett herself has been teaching for more than two decades.

The report ends some time in June 1998.Plot summaryIt soon turns out that Barbara is neither a reliable nor a disinterested first-person narrator. An old spinster, she is a very lonely woman who, willy-nilly, has learned "to construct an entire weekend around a visit to the launderette or to sit in a darkened flat on Halloween night, because you cant bear to expose your bleak evening to a crowd of jeering trick-or-treaters". Although she is eager to make friends with work colleagues she has not been able to make those friendships last as she seems to be too possessive, domineering and generally in the habit of looking down on people who, for some reason or other, do not live up to her arbitrary standards.When Sheba Hart joins the staff of St Georges, Barbara immediately senses that they might become friends. However, she soon finds out that Sheba, who is almost forty one, is married with two children — her 11-year-old son, Ben, has Downs Syndrome — and leading a fulfilled, busy life. What is more, Sheba seems to be associating with some of the teachers Barbara considers beneath her. Eventually, however, Barbara and Sheba do become acquainted when, on the spur of the moment, Sheba invites Barbara for Sunday dinner with her family.

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Notes on a Scandal Cast

• Andrew Simpson
• Bill Nighy
• Cate Blanchett popular
• Emma Kennedy
• Joanna Scanlan
• Juno Temple
• Leon Skinner
• Michael Maloney
• Philip Davis
• Shaun Parkes
• Syreeta Kumar
• Tameka Empson
• Tom Georgeson
• Wendy Nottingham