Had her life turned out as expected, Isabel Haugseng Johansen would have been sitting in a classroom at Bryne Upper Secondary School last Tuesday preparing for her final exams.
Arriving at the modern, breeze-block building, however, the 18-year-old’s teacher told me that she had been given leave of absence to ‘study remotely’, adding that everyone — staff, fellow pupils and, presumably, even the janitor — had been warned to say nothing more about her.
So where was she, this ‘incredibly