Traveling the world as a private tutor to the offspring of the oligarchy, debut novelist Sarah Thomas found herself thrown into a glossily oppressive life that she could never have imagined.
I was in my early 20s when I decided I wanted to write a novel. After a bookish childhood, I had followed an unremarkable middle-class trajectory: an English degree at a top university followed by an entry-level job in publishing. Reading five manuscripts a week left no time to write anything of my own. I wanted a job that allowed me free time, so I registered with a tutoring agency.
Whenever I thought I’d seen it all, the job would take me to new extremes.
Maya’s parents had recently purchased a fourth home, a villa on the Côte d’Azur. They didn’t like the trees, so they ripped them out and had five ancient dogwoods delivered from Spain. These arrived by steamboat, weeping white blossom into the small port, while Maya did math for six hours a day, right through her Easter holidays.
“Look, Merry, look!” she cried, as the trainer’s dogs leapt and twisted through hoops and tunnels and jumps.
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