What is the setting in the novel, The Inner Circle?

The book is set in an upscale, expensive preparatory boarding school in Connecticut. It is a setting of the privileged. The kids at the high school are mostly from wealthy homes, where a good educations is a given. The narrator is the black sheep of the school in that her background is not upper class. It is significant that many jokes are made about Reed's blue-collar background. The attitude of condescension towards Reed, even jokingly reveals the mentality of the society of the school.