You Deserve Nothing by Alexander Maksik

The title misleads.  I curled up with my blanket and cocoa expecting to read a vicious tale of hatred and malice and was sorely disappointed.  This novel is about a love affair between a teacher and his pupil in an international school in France.   The book is split into chapters each narrated by a different character telling their own narrative of the year in which the affair takes place.  Some of these characters are bearable.  Most are not.  There are a lot of literary/quasi-philosophical debates between the students which were so terrible I am clenching my teeth even recalling them.  The plot is predictable although not formulaic, so there are some positives.  In summary, this is a slightly better than average romance novel.