Harriet Said...
Beryl Bainbridge
 It concerns two schoolgirls spending their holiday in a run-down northern resort. Harriet is the older at 14. The 13-year-old unnamed narrator develops a crush on an unhappily married middle-aged man whom they call the Tsar. Led by Harriet they study his relationship with his wife, planning to humiliate him. Their plan quickly goes wrong, however, with tragic results.