The Chinese Garden

By Rosemary Manning

16 year old Rachel attends an all-girls boarding school, where the "ultimate crime" is students falling in love with each other.

When her friend Margaret is caught with another girl, Rachel's ensnared in the administration's net. In the face of Rachel's growing understanding of her own sexual identity, she realizes that if she doesn't betray her friend, she'll suffer the same fate. But how can she?


The author originally published this book in 1962. It was republished in 2000, by The Feminist Press.

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