The Tower Room

by Adele Geras

'A young man will come from the outside, and he will be a cat among the doves. If a young woman is locked away, as you are locked away, at the top of a tower for years and years... imagine what can happen. You know nothing.'

'But I'm not ignorant! I know all about things... poverty, unhappiness, hunger. I read the newspapers. I know what's happening.'

'But love,' Miss Van der Leyden said. 'Do you know about love?'

Seventeen-year-old Megan falls hard for Simon, the handsome new assistant and the only man at her all-girl boarding school. Simon meets with her at night, when he can climb without being seen to the tower room Megan shares with her two best friends. But Megan isn't the only one taken with Simon: Megan's harsh foster mother, Dorothy, has fallen for the young lab assistant herself, and she will let no one -- not even her orphaned young charge -- stand in her way.

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