A very private school
Spencer, Charles Spencer, Earl, 1964-2025
Books
Find it!
At 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.
Main title:
A very private school / Charles Spencer.
Author:
Edition:
[New edition].
Imprint:
London : William Collins, 2025.
Collation:
306 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Previous edition: 2024.
ISBN:
9780008666118 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
5250080
Bookmark link:
More Information: