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A Very Private School
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A Very Private School

Charles Spencer
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER NPR "BOOKS WE LOVE" 2024 PEOPLE'S "BEST CELEBRITY MEMOIRS" 2024 TOWN & COUNTRY'S "BEST NEW ROYAL BOOKS" 2024 THE TIMES (LONDON) "10 BEST BIOGRAPHIES AND MEMOIRS" 2024 WINNIPEG FREE PRESS'S "BEST BOOKS" 2024 "A tour de force." --The Washington Post

In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age eight to attend boarding school.

A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed, first-hand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Charles Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding system. Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time, he reflects on the hopelessness and abandonment he felt at aged eight, viscerally describing the intense pain of homesickness and the appalling inescapability of it all. Exploring the long-lasting impact of his experiences, Spencer presents a candid reckoning with his past and a reclamation of his childhood.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Country
United States
Date
12 March 2024
Pages
304
ISBN
9781668046388

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER NPR "BOOKS WE LOVE" 2024 PEOPLE'S "BEST CELEBRITY MEMOIRS" 2024 TOWN & COUNTRY'S "BEST NEW ROYAL BOOKS" 2024 THE TIMES (LONDON) "10 BEST BIOGRAPHIES AND MEMOIRS" 2024 WINNIPEG FREE PRESS'S "BEST BOOKS" 2024 "A tour de force." --The Washington Post

In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age eight to attend boarding school.

A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed, first-hand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Charles Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding system. Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time, he reflects on the hopelessness and abandonment he felt at aged eight, viscerally describing the intense pain of homesickness and the appalling inescapability of it all. Exploring the long-lasting impact of his experiences, Spencer presents a candid reckoning with his past and a reclamation of his childhood.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Country
United States
Date
12 March 2024
Pages
304
ISBN
9781668046388

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