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Private Place
Amanda Craig
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Description for Private Place
Paperback. Savagely funny, compelling and a cult classic, A Private Place has struck a chord with generations. It's now available with a new afterword by the author. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 200.
Knotshead is a school catering for the children of the rich, famous, liberal - and deluded. With its progressive curriculum, complacent staff and beautiful grounds, it looks like Paradise. But the clever, the odd and the bookish are relentlessly persecuted as pupils make their own rules in a bubble of privilege and prejudice. When Alice, the Headmaster's intellectual step-daughter, and the much-expelled American millionaire Winthrop T Sheen join forces against the school bully, Grub Viner, a gifted pianist and school "joker", has to choose between love and loyalty, and black comedy escalates to murder.
Knotshead is a school catering for the children of the rich, famous, liberal - and deluded. With its progressive curriculum, complacent staff and beautiful grounds, it looks like Paradise. But the clever, the odd and the bookish are relentlessly persecuted as pupils make their own rules in a bubble of privilege and prejudice. When Alice, the Headmaster's intellectual step-daughter, and the much-expelled American millionaire Winthrop T Sheen join forces against the school bully, Grub Viner, a gifted pianist and school "joker", has to choose between love and loyalty, and black comedy escalates to murder.
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
199g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349139548
SKU
V9780349139548
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99-1
About Amanda Craig
Amanda Craig is a British novelist, short-story writer and critic. After a brief time in advertising and PR, she became a journalist for newspapers such as the Sunday Times, Observer, Daily Telegraph and Independent, winning both the Young Journalist of the Year and the Catherine Pakenham Award. She was the children's critic for the Independent on Sunday and The Times. ... Read more
Reviews for Private Place
A genuinely gripping novel
Spectator
A genuinely gripping novel
Spectator
A viciously clever satire on progressive schools . . . Will cause distress in liberal circles
Independent
A viciously clever satire on progressive schools . . . Will cause distress in liberal circles
Independent
Bitingly funny and horribly accurate
Telegraph
... Read more
Spectator
A genuinely gripping novel
Spectator
A viciously clever satire on progressive schools . . . Will cause distress in liberal circles
Independent
A viciously clever satire on progressive schools . . . Will cause distress in liberal circles
Independent
Bitingly funny and horribly accurate
Telegraph
... Read more