Unfinished Desires by Gail Godwin, author of Evensong, takes place in a Catholic girls school in North Carolina in the 50’s. Decades later the headmistress looks back on that time, and tells the tale of one group of girls and what happened on a fateful night.

Goodwin exposes all the hidden parts of each personality, the queen bee, the brain, the girls in the background, and the jealousy and passion and concealed emotions that move them all.

Goodwin is a talented writer and I found the book interesting, but just didn’t like the characters enough to really care about any of them, and was left mildly disappointed by the end of the book.