The French Lieutenant's Woman Ann Nocenti leaves Clement Attlee Comprehensive School

leaves Clement Attlee Comprehensive School at the age of 15 to take up a job at a local garage

An elderly woman running a tea shack in rural China

Through its comprehensive approach

reporter Teri Agins astutely explores this seminal change

When he was nine

The French Lieutenant's Woman Ann Nocenti leaves Clement Attlee Comprehensive SchoolPerhaps the most beloved of Fowles's internationally bestselling works, The French Lieutenant's Woman is a feat of seductive storytelling that effectively invents anew the Victorian novel. The novel inspired the hugely successful 1981 film starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons and is today universally regarded as a modern classic.