Both say right away, if you're a little depressed mood, this is not "The Headmaster's Wife" that will make your happiness. But if you appreciate fine literature, that the author is the turning of a page's exact words to depict a mood, a feeling, a longing, then this book is for you. When we learn, in the acknowledgments, the author wrote to the bedside of her daughter who lived only six months, we can understand the sadness that was bound to leak out. "The Headmaster's Wife" is a novel literally split in two, as if the author had changed his mind on the way. The first part is a classic narrative, centered on an attraction that goes against common sense, "she spring, winter it," as the poet sang beautifully. In a school of Vermont, the respectable Director, Arthur Winthrop, falls in love with Betsy, one of his students, drifting in a classic scenario of unhealthy obsessive love. The second part takes the reader by surprise by moving in a different direction, which I can not reveal much at the risk of spoiling the fun but which sheds new light on this second première.Dans storytelling, wife of Arthur takes the lead role this time, and according to his broken, sadness comes gradually impose watermark. "The Headmaster's Wife" is a bittersweet reflection on the couple, filial relationships, the fallen dreams, spirits and broken souls with reminiscences of the American author Thomas H. Cook. A literary and human achievement that gives anyway want to discover the earlier works of Thomas Christopher Greene.
