Book blurb...
A sensible small town. An accident and a secret. They say a good teacher is hard to find ...
Stony Creek is a quiet farming community where good manners, good will and fairness must be upheld at all costs. No one embodies these values more than married P&C president, Jennifer Booth. Though her only child is long graduated from Stony Creek Primary School (one teacher plus casuals), Jennifer prides herself on leading by example. But when she has passionate, unexpected sex with the new principal, Brock Kelly, just before a P&C meeting, on his office desk, no one is more surprised than she. And when an accident at the school looks like sabotage, then they’ve really got trouble on their hands.
Fellow committee member Sarah Howard, gifted with a highly developed intuition, takes one look at the guilty parties and knows her children’s futures are in jeopardy. Everyone always says that a child’s education should not be compromised and nothing about this scandal will end well for the school, the teacher or the community. Does disaster loom for Stony Creek?
My thoughts…

It’s impossible to put some books down, especially those so full of characters who have moral compasses so utterly out of whack. I was totally hooked by The Good Teacher and was gob smacked at how deceitful the people in this town could be.

The Good Teacher is not a big book and don't expect me to mention the amazing descriptions of the town or the landscape because if there was any such detail I was too sucked into the characters' lives to notice. I saw nothing other than what the narrator wanted me to see and I read well into the night because I could NOT put this story down.

A great read. Lots of lessons to learn from The Good Teacher!!

Set in a country town that could be any in Australia where everyone seems to know other's business but many have secrets and do not portray their true selves. The twists and turns of sex lives and what is considered true love and what is actually true love. I enjoyed this light and dry comedy on the way life is for possibly some people. The relationships between women is right on the mark. Jennifer was a real piece of work that many would identify knowing someone similar. The character Ian made me feel sick as he was just interested in his needs and no one else. Brock annoyed me as he was just wishy washy with no real backbone. I loved the relationship between the Mack and his granddaughter Madison as it was honest and real. I would recommend this book to readers who would enjoy something light and entertaining.

This book had me from the blurb on the front cover 'A wickedly amusing tale of lust, lies and revenge' and this description was very apt.
Brock Kelly applies for the position of principle at Stony Creek primary school after a failed relationship. Unexpectedly he wins the position (there was only one other candidate) and he finds he's great at his job and loves it. But complications set in when he starts having a affair with Jennifer who is head of the P&C and at their first tryst, the one building school is accidentally burnt down.

I found 'The Good Teacher' a surprisingly fun and easy read. I took it to be a 'tongue in cheek' look at life in a small community and there is a lot more going on in this town of four streets and thirty houses that people know about. It really is centred around two families in the town and I feel that half the fun is for the reader to delve in and discover what the characters are getting up to behind each others backs. Lets just say that self righteous Jennifer finds out that her little interludes with Brock have been discovered and suddenly Brock finds that more then his job is being threatened.

I enjoyed all the characters, especially Madison who is Jennifer's daughter, I loved her relationship with her grandfather Mack and how she grew in the novel.

I presume this is the author's first novel and I was also interested to read that he is a second generation beef cattle farmer from Northern NSW, I don't read a lot of male authors except for the thriller genre, so this was a refreshing experience.

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for a copy to read and review.