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Books: I didn't know George Eliot wrote 'Sweet Valley High'... Prep By Curtis Sittenfeld PICADOR pounds 12.99 pounds 11.99 (P&P FREE) 08700 798 897

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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20051002
Author:Hermione Eyre

Prep, a novel set in a privileged New England private school, caused a literary sensation in America. It perched in the New York Times bestseller list; the film rights were optioned by Paramount. It created the kind of kerfuffle that made you think it must have something more to it than just dormitories and homework " incest, perhaps, or Bacchic rites at half term, la Donna Tartt.

But Prep is impressively free from sensationalism. It is a simple bildungsroman: one girl's experience of friendship, first love, and lacrosse. Its subject matter is straight out of Teen Girl. Yet Curtis ...

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