Saving Miss Oliver's: A Novel of Leadership, Loyalty and Change
Founded by a woman, run by a woman, designed with a curriculum that focuses on the way women learn, Miss Oliver's School for Girls will always be true to its defining mission, the single-sex education of girls, as long as Marjorie Boyd is the headmistress. It is her vivid leadership and deep understanding of progressive education that has made this New England boarding school a home away from home where girls, free of the presumptive dominance of boys, learn how capable they really are, how expansive their potential is.
But Marjorie Boyd has just been fired. She's paid too little attention to the business side of her job, to marketing and finances, and the school's in financial crisis. The board has had no choice but to save the school from the impractical nature of the very woman who has made it so worth saving.
The novel opens on Graduation Day, as Marjorie makes her final speech, saying goodbye to the assembled students, their parents and the alumnae, who love her for the school that's changed their lives. Hiding her bitterness, she's handing the school over to the young educator whose job it will be to save what she has built.
And who happens to be male!
What an egregious error to appoint a male to lead this very feminist -some would say sexist- environment! And how naive can this young headmaster, Fred Kindler be to believe he can survive, not only as a male but as the usurper of the position that everyone but the board wants Marjorie to hold forever...
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