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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Ysenda Maxtone GrahamPublisher: Little, Brown Book Group Imprint: Abacus Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 19.70cm Weight: 0.258kg ISBN: 9780349143064ISBN 10: 0349143064 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 02 November 2017 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsThe girls' boarding school! What a ripe theme for the most observant verbal artist in our midst today - the absurdly underrated and undersung Ysenda Maxtone Graham, who has the beadiness and nosiness of the best investigative reporter, the wit of Jane Austen and a take on life which is like no one else's. This book has been my constant companion ever since it appeared a few months ago -- A. N. Wilson * Evening Standard * If you think the St Trinian's films were fictitious, then this wonderful book will surely convince you that they were documentaries * Mail on Sunday * A funny, vivid and excruciating book, which has left me filled with admiration for the brave, damaged survivors of this lost world -- Virginia Nicholson * The Times * The most brilliant, hilarious book This is not a history of women's boarding schools. It's not easy to say where, exactly, you would shelve it. It could be under memoir. Or is it more like anthropology? . . . The other option would be comedy, as it's the funniest book you'll read all year Funny, bloodcurdling and moving . . . this will make old boarding-school girls sigh with nostalgia, and everyone else sigh with relief at having avoided the experience * Daily Mail * The girls' boarding school! What a ripe theme for the most observant verbal artist in our midst today - the absurdly underrated and undersung Ysenda Maxtone Graham, who has the beadiness and nosiness of the best investigative reporter, the wit of Jane Austen and a take on life which is like no one else's. This book has been my constant companion ever since it appeared a few months ago -- A. N. Wilson * Evening Standard * If you think the St Trinian's films were fictitious, then this wonderful book will surely convince you that they were documentaries * Mail on Sunday * A funny, vivid and excruciating book, which has left me filled with admiration for the brave, damaged survivors of this lost world -- Virginia Nicholson * The Times * Author InformationYsenda Maxtone Graham was born in 1962 and educated at The King's School, Canterbury and Girton College, Cambridge. She has written for many newspapers and magazines as a features writer, book reviewer and columnist. She is the author of six books: The Church Hesitant: A Portrait of the Church of England Today; The Real Mrs Miniver, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography of the Year Award; Mr Tibbits's Catholic School; An Insomniac's Guide to the Small Hours; Terms & Conditions: Life in Girls' Boarding Schools, 1939-1979; British Summer Time Begins: The School Summer Holidays, 1930-1980, which was a Sunday Times bestseller. She lives in London with her husband and three sons. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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