POSH by Lucy Jackson is a novel about the members of an elite school community that is told from multiple viewpoints.

Inside Manhattan's private school world of fast-paced over-the-top entitlement and superficial gloss lurk many secrets - the secrets of emotionally charged teenage and adult lives.

Julianne Coopersmith, a middle-class teen with an overprotective mother, attends Griffin on scholarship. Morgan Goldfine, Julianne's best friend whose mother recently died, is awash in grief. Michael Avery, Julianne's boy wonder boyfriend, is Harvard bound. Kathryn "Lazy" Hoffman, Griffin's headmistress, is having a professionally verboten affair with a teacher. Cracks form in Julianne and Michael's relationship after Michael shows signs of mental instability, though Julianne's loathe to give up on him, even when his symptoms hint at violent tendencies. Morgan mopes her way through the school year, and Julianne's mother strikes up an unlikely friendship with Michael's mother. Kathryn's affair, predictably, becomes public knowledge, sparking domestic and professional upheaval.

Lucy Jackson is the pseudonym for an acclaimed short story writer and novelist. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, and many other magazines and anthologies. She lives in New York.

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