A Very Private School by Charles Spencer Hardcover Book

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE A Very Private School by Charles Spencer A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERIn this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age eight to attend a boarding school.A tour-de-force Washington Post FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERShocking and moving GuardianA tour-de-force Washington PostAt eight years of age, Charles Spencer was sent away to one of Englands most exclusive boarding schools. In this courageous and beautifully written memoir, Spencer offers a clear-eyed, first-hand account of the strange secrets of the school, and the culture of cruelty and abuse he witnessed and experienced in his five years there as a pupil.Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time, the book is his attempt to come to terms with the deep emotional scars inflicted upon him. Spencer reflects on the misery, hopelessness and abandonment he felt aged eight, viscerally describing the intense pain of homesickness, the vicious brutality of a boysâ™ school in the 1970s and the appalling inescapability of it all.The book cracks the code of the unpoliced regime that ran the place and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding school system. He gives vivid portraits of the teachers and other staff placed in loco parentis, their casual cruelties and toxic obsessions. All these years later, Spencerâ™s bafflement at their motivations to inflict such cruelty on young children is palpable. As is his fury that, even if somehow he had spoken up, heâ™d never have been believed.Charles Spencers book A Very Private School was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 11-03-2024. Author Biography Charles Spencer is author of a number of books including Killers of the King and Blenheim: Battle for Europe which was shortlisted for History Book of the Year at the 2005 National Book Awards. A former contributing Correspondent on the TODAY Show (NBC News), he is a Founder of the Althorp Literary Festival. His wife, Karen, founded and runs Whole Child International - a charity that champions abandoned and orphaned children in the Developing World. Review Top marks for its searing frankness, framed in wistfully beautiful proseThe TimesSpencer is acutely observant of the myriad power imbalances at play within this imperial throwback. There has been a steady stream of books about boarding schools in recent years… but two things mark Spencer out from the crowd. First, he is by title and birth the ultimate establishment man, but hes still prepared to take on the shibboleths of his class and upbringing. Second, his turn of phrase is often delightful. A painstaking and traumatic process, but one for which any reader must surely give a cheerDaily TelegraphMoving… A heartbreaking memoir of a childhood endured at a boarding school without love, where abuse was shockingly commonplaceFinancial TimesThis is a story with a clear remit: to confront the British school system with the abuses it has long enabled. There are many graphic details in this book but the allegations have the most impact when read here as a grander narrative about power and how it is abused. As an individual testimony to the abuse that scarred a lifetime and hobbled his marriages, it is a tour de forceWashington PostMoving and beautifully written, what Spencers courageous book reveals will be horribly familiar to the thousands of us who endured the same vile abuse in dozens of schools that were clones of each other. Most of us will go to our graves with the wounds unhealedLouis de BernieresThis is a powerful, unforgettable story of childhood trauma, and the dark secrets and savagery of the past, told with a searing honesty and clarity that is ultimately redemptiveJustine Picardie Promotional The #1 Sunday Times Bestselling Memoir Details ISBN0008666083 Author Charles Spencer Pages 304 Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Year 2024 ISBN-13 9780008666088 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2024-03-14 Imprint William Collins Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Alternative 9780008666095 Audience General UK Release Date 2024-03-14 ISBN-10 0008666083 DEWEY 941.085092 AU Release Date 2024-10-01 NZ Release Date 2024-10-01 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERY No matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. SECURE PAYMENT Peace of mind by paying through PayPal and eBay Buyer Protection TheNile_Item_ID:159009494;

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