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Noisy at the Wrong Times: The uplifting story of a different kind of education - ´Hugely entertaining and inspiring´ The Sunday Times

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Description for Noisy at the Wrong Times: The uplifting story of a different kind of education - ´Hugely entertaining and inspiring´ The Sunday Times Paperback. One of The Sunday Times' 100 biographies to love The incredible story of a boy from a council estate, and the school that made him 'Hugely entertaining and inspiring' The Sunday Times Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DST; 3JJPR; 3JM; AVGC9; BM; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 240.

'Hugely entertaining and inspiring' The Sunday Times
One of The Sunday Times' 100 biographies to love

The inspirational and colourful memoir of Michael Volpe, the general manager of Opera Holland Park. The son of Italian immigrants, he and his brothers were raised by his mother on a council estate in West London, before he attended Woolverstone Hall, a prestigious state boarding school designed to give bright inner city boys the opportunity of a public school education. Set against a backdrop of nuns, hit men, ice cream vans, rugby, gangsters, strict school masters and music, Noisy at the Wrong Times ... Read moreis the vibrant, funny, inspiring story of a boy who was given a chance - though whether he took it or not is another question...

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Product Details

Publisher
John Murray Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
240g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781473629400
SKU
V9781473629400
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99

About Michael Volpe
Michael Volpe, the youngest of four brothers, is from an Italian immigrant family and has three children; Leanora, Gianluca and Fiora. He is married to Sally Connew-Volpe and they live in London. Michael joined the Royal Borough Of Kensington and Chelsea in October 1989 after a period of working in the international hotel industry and founded Opera Holland Park in ... Read more

Reviews for Noisy at the Wrong Times: The uplifting story of a different kind of education - ´Hugely entertaining and inspiring´ The Sunday Times
'Hugely entertaining and inspiring' The Sunday Times - The Sunday Times 'You'll laugh, you'll cry. Life affirming' Fiona Maddocks, Opera critic for the Observer 'Volpe is a skilled and persuasive writer, and lets the extraordinary facts of his story do the talking' Sinfini Music - Sinfini Music

Goodreads reviews for Noisy at the Wrong Times: The uplifting story of a different kind of education - ´Hugely entertaining and inspiring´ The Sunday Times


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