A Very Private School - Charles Spencer - diskuze

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Times, Spectator and Waterstones Book of the Year''Shocking and moving'' Guardian''Top marks for its searing frankness, framed in wistfully beautiful prose’ The TimesAt eight years of age, Charles Spencer was sent away to one of England''s most England''s most exclusive boarding schools. Here he reveals the strange secrets of the school, and the culture of cruelty and abuse he experienced in his five years there as pupil.Spencer reflects on the misery, hopelessness and abandonment he felt aged eight, viscerally describing the intense pain of homesickness and the vicious brutality of a boys'' school in the 1970s. All these years later, Spencer''s bafflement at the teachers'' motivations to inflict such cruelty on young children in palpable. As is his fury that, even if somehow he had spoken up, he''d never have been believed.Charles Spencer''s book ''A Very Private School'' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 11-03-2024.
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