The Woman Upstairs

Nora Eldridge teaches at an elementary school in Massachusetts, but she is sure her real destiny is to be an artist. Then one day a beautiful boy appears in her classroom. His parents are on a year-long visit from Paris: his father has a fellowship at Harvard, his mother is a glamorous installation artist. For that magical year, Nora is admitted into their charmed circle, and believes that everything is transformed. But her liberation from the benign shackles of her old life is not quite what it seems - and she is about to suffer a betrayal more monstrous than anything she could have imagined...