![]() ![]() However, a Teutonic twit of a German professor, an anally retentive Headmaster and a series of vicious pranks conspire to scupper his anniversary. He's about to notch up his hundredth season, a century of chalk dust and detentions of which he is gruffly proud. Or that's how Roy Straitley, ageing Latin Master and resident cynic, sums up the beginning of term. An archaic institution on the edge of a small nameless English town, it has fallen foul of "inspections, restructurings, treason and plot". It's a new year at St Oswald's Grammar School for Boys and things are unravelling faster than a scarf caught on the school gates. ![]() It's a technique that has come to the fore in Gentlemen & Players if her breakthrough novel, Chocolat, was a confection of Gallic whimsy then this is a literary gobstopper with an aniseed heart. Although tagged with an undeserved reputation for writing fluff, her almost fairytale plots have frequently baited a barbed hook. ![]()
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