A VERY PRIVATE SCHOOL

THE 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times Spectator and Waterstones Book of the Year Shocking and moving Guardian Top marks for its searing frankness framed in wistfully beautiful prose The Times 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 Charles Spencer s book A Very Private School was a Sunday Times bestseller w c 11 03 2024