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The Thoroughbreds

by Elin Hilderbrand

Secrets in the senior class

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Secrets in the senior class

At Tiffin Academy, the start of senior year brings college applications, parties and shifting loyalties. The story gathers several strands of conflict around the school community: a couple under strain, a friendship fractured, a day student’s place in the social order, and the head of school’s effort to save her position after a financial mistake. The mystery surrounding an email attachment sent to a student before her death adds another question to the mix. Together, these threads place ambition, betrayal and growing up within the pressures of a New England boarding-school setting.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in boarding-school fiction and the social dynamics of a senior class.
  • Readers who enjoy stories built around overlapping secrets, relationships and school-community conflicts.
  • Readers seeking fiction about friendship, ambition and coming of age.

Themes

Friendship and betrayalAmbition and growing upSocial hierarchySecrets and school-community pressures

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Book overview

Class is back in session! New York Times bestselling authors of The Academy Elin Hilderbrand and Shelby Cunningham return with The Thoroughbreds: what has more high-stakes drama, tension, and intrigue than senior year at a New England boarding school?

September at Tiffin Academy is always a heady time, especially for the senior class--"sixth formers," in Tiffin-speak--a season of college applications and intense pressure, of partying hard and last hurrahs. As the chapel bells ring in students and staff, everyone has something to look forward to--but in the midst of the anticipation and excitement, nagging questions and dark secrets lurk beneath the surface...

Are Tiffin's It Couple, Charley and East, on the rocks? What sparked the rift between football star Dub and his best friend Hakeem? Will Pippa Sacks, posh day student, topple the delicate social hierarchy--or wreak even worse havoc? Can Head of School Audre Robinson save her job--and the school--after a disastrous financial mistake? And what was in that email attachment Cinnamon Peters sent to Dub before she died?

Elin Hilderbrand and her daughter Shelby Cunningham answer these questions and more in The Thoroughbreds, a page-turning story about friendship, treachery, ambition, and growing up, at any age.
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