Matricide at St. Martha's

"The clever plot takes second place to the ebullience of the writing and spot-on inventiveness of the satire."—The Times

St. Martha''s College, Cambridge, had been staggering along on a shoestring for decades. Then alumna Alice Toon leaves her old school a huge fortune. The dons immediately fall to fighting over the spoils. The Virgins, led by Dame Maud Theodosia Buckbarrow, believe the bequests sh...