The Learning Curve by Melissa
Nathan
The Learning Curve
From the bestselling author of The Nanny, comes this captivating new
novel about a teacher who is idolized by her class, particularly ten-year-old
Oscar. Oscar’s father is a frazzled single-parent workaholic who resents
any interference from his son’s teacher.
From the Hardcover edition.
Personal Review: The Learning Curve by Melissa Nathan
As with her previous works, Melissa Nathan's fifth and last book "The
Learning Curve" is a warm-hearted, quick-paced pleaser that explores the
tenuousness of love and life. Her protagonist this time around is Nicky

Hobbs, a thirty-year-old primary school teacher who finds herself facing the
sad thought that she may never be able to juggle both career and having
children. Not that she's anywhere near to getting married or having
children, but the thought is pressing itself upon her rather more these days.
At the beginning of the school year, Nicky instantly takes a liking to Oscar,
one of her students, whose workaholic father is often absent from the
picture. Oscar's father, Mark, believes he is doing his best to provide for
his son; what he learns from his son about his teacher disturbs him - he
believes Nicky to be a meddling busybody and is ready to give her a piece
of his mind. Instead, during a confrontation at Parents' Night, it is Nicky
who gives him a piece of her mind and helps Mark to see that some things
have to change. To complicate matters even further, they develop a
mutual crush on each other but can't reveal their feelings to each other. As
Nicky applies to become headmaster at the school, she finds herself in
competition with a Rob, a fellow teacher (and her college boyfriend), who
suddenly is very interested in starting things all over again - or is he?
Nicky finds herself questioning the motives behind both of the men in her
life, while trying to determine exactly what she wants out of life, and what
she is able to have in this world.
"The Learning Curve" is sadly Melissa Nathan's last, as she passed away
two months after finishing this book from breast cancer. This last novel is
full of her trademark wit and her uncanny ability to write about real life and
the mix-ups that always happen in the name of love. While technically
what the literary world would term "chick lit", Nathan's five novels have
constantly risen above the sordid vapidness that the genre title often
encompasses: she brought a warmth and intelligence that is lacking from
most of this genre's formulaic plots and fabrications. Indeed, "The
Learning Curve" examines the idea of women having to choose between
career or children; why can't she have both and be successful at both?
And it is debated marvelously under Melissa Nathan's sure hands. She
will truly be missed.
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