With a troubled teenager on her hands, Scotland’s richest woman stakes her fortune on defending the slander and libel charges brought against her by two ordinary women, the schoolteachers Miss Pirie and Miss Woods. In fact she takes a certain sadistic pleasure in it. Is she shrewd or foolish to refuse a settlement? “What do you mean I’ve only got the second best solicitor in the country? Get me the first!” To prevail, Lady Gordon of Gordonstoun must now match wits with high court justices, seasoned advocates and even her own wily granddaughter, Jane—adversaries with stakes every bit as high as her own.

About the Author: Suzanne Stroh

Suzanne Stroh's screenwriting credits include co-writer of the offbeat, dual language African dramedy OKA! starring Kris Marshall and Isaach de Bankolé (Roland Films and James Bruce Productions; Dada Films, 2011). Suzanne co-wrote OKA! with filmmaker Lavinia Currier, adapting an unpublished memoir by Louis Sarno to tell the fish-out-of-water story of a hapless American on a Grail quest for lost music in the central African forest. "Worth the journey," wrote Andy Webster in The New York Times.

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