An accomplished historian mines his childhood experience of the cruelty of the boarding school he was sent to aged eight.
A Very Private School: A Memoir
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£25.00
Edition:Hardback978000866608814/03/2024
Categories: 01. New Year 2024: Biography & Memoir, Biography, Letters & Diaries, New Year 2024
Tag: Memoir
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