Flash Review: Outstanding

4/10 for Outstanding by Kathrynn Flett

Eve Sturridge, a high-flying divorcee and mother of two girls, is head teacher of Ivy House, an Ofsted 'Outstanding' prep school in Sussex. Eve is passionate about her school and its pupils. 

When Danish power couple, Stefan and Anette Sorenson, jet in and choose Ivy House over other schools, Eve is justifiably proud. The Sorensons are A-listers who bring an aura of style and power to Ivy House. 

Zoe is Eve's pretty seventeen-year-old daughter. Unlike her mother, Zoe's not so keen on school. She prefers sending nude selfies to her boyfriend. 

When glamorous Stefan Sorenson proposes that Zoe interns at his company and invites her to accompany him to New York, Zoe is over the moon with excitement, while Eve is too focused on her job to smell danger . . .

Review copy received through Netgalley, with many thanks to the publisher.

This book is difficult. I think I had all the wrong expectations about this book, expecting it to go in a completely different direction that it actually went. And though it was enough to hold my attention throughout the story. I found it too day-to-day, to be blown away by it. It almost felt like reading a biography or a non-fiction story.

There were a lot of characters and a lot of side stories all coming together into one big story, like life often does but for me it was too everyday to get that thrill of fiction.

However, props to Flett for managing the art of making something quite mundane into a story that people can love. Be it the right reader and I think I wasn't the right one for this story.