<div><div><div><b><div><div><div><b></b> </div><div><b>Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize</b></div><div><b></b> </div><div><b>Now the Major Motion Picture </b><b><i>Notes on a Scandal</i></b></div><div> </div></div></div></b><div><b></div></b>Schoolteacher Barbara Covett has led a solitary life until Sheba Hart, the new art teacher at St. George's, befriends her. But even as their relationship develops, so too does another: Sheba has begun an illicit affair with an underage male student. When the scandal turns into a media circus, Barbara decides to write an account in her friend's defense--and ends up revealing not only Sheba's secrets, but also her own.</div></div></div>