Zoë Heller

Notes on a Scandal is a 2003 novel by Zoë Heller. It is about a female teacher at a London comprehensive school who begins an affair with an underage pupil. The novel was shortlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Prize. A film version was released in 2006 and stars Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett, both of whom were nominated …

The Believers is a novel by Zoë Heller first published in 2008. It depicts a left-wing New York family of grown-ups who have little in common. The patriarch suffers an unexpected stroke and falls into a coma, after which each family member tries to continue his own unconventional course in life while at the same time …

Willy Muller has survived imprisonment for murdering his wife, the suicide of his daughter Sadie and, most recently, a heart attack. While recuperating he finds himself drawn into the lonely world of her diaries and is reluctantly forced to confront the troubling secrets that lie buried in his past.