Terms & Conditions: Life in Girls' Boarding Schools, 1939-1979

Ysenda Maxtone Graham

Terms & Conditions: Life in Girls' Boarding Schools, 1939-1979
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Country
United Kingdom
Published
31 October 2017
Pages
304
ISBN
9780349143064

Terms & Conditions: Life in Girls’ Boarding Schools, 1939-1979

Ysenda Maxtone Graham

‘The girls’ boarding school! What a ripe theme for the most observant verbal artist in our midst today - the absurdly 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. N. Wilson, Evening Standard

When I asked a group of girls who had been at Hatherop Castle in the 1960s whether the school had had a lab in those days they gave me a blank look. ‘A laboratory?’ I expanded, hoping to jog their memories. ‘Oh that kind of lab!’ one of them said. ‘I thought you meant a Labrador.’

‘The cruel teachers. The pashes on other girls. The gossip. The giggles. The awful food. The homesickness. The friendships made for life. The shivering cold. Games of lacrosse, and cricket.

'The most brilliant, hilarious book. My book of the year’ India Knight

‘A wonderful book’ Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday

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