An accomplished historian mines his childhood experience of the cruelty of the boarding school he was sent to aged eight.
A Very Private School
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£10.99
Edition:Paperback978000866611813/03/2025
Categories: Biography, Letters & Diaries, New Paperbacks
Tag: Memoir
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