A Private Place

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A Private Place

A Private Place

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3.67 (171 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Knotshead is a school catering for the children of the rich, famous, liberal - and deluded. With its progressive curriculum, complacent staff and beautiful grounds, it looks like Paradise. But the clever, the odd and the bookish are relentlessly persecuted as pupils make their own rules in a bubble of privilege and prejudice. When Alice, the Headmaster's intellectual step-daughter, and the much-expelled American millionaire Winthrop T Sheen join forces against the school bully, Grub Viner, a gifted pianist and school "joker", has to choose between love and loyalty, and black comedy escalates to murder.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780349139548
ISBN10 0349139547
Number Of Pages 288
Item Weight 206 g
Product Dimensions 201 x 130 x 19 mm
Publisher / Reseller Little, Brown Book Group
Format paperback
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A genuinely gripping novel * Spectator *
A genuinely gripping novel * Spectator *
A viciously clever satire on progressive schools . . . Will cause distress in liberal circles * Independent *
A viciously clever satire on progressive schools . . . Will cause distress in liberal circles * Independent *
Bitingly funny and horribly accurate * Telegraph *
Bitingly funny and horribly accurate * Telegraph *
Craig writes with ruthless honesty and jet black wit * Cosmopolitan *
Craig writes with ruthless honesty and jet black wit * Cosmopolitan *

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Author's Bio

Amanda Craig is a British novelist, short-story writer and critic. After a brief time in advertising and PR, she became a journalist for newspapers such as the Sunday Times, Observer, Daily Telegraph and Independent, winning both the Young Journalist of the Year and the Catherine Pakenham Award. Her novels Hearts and Minds and The Golden Rule were both longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and The Lie of the Land was chosen as book of the year by the Guardian, Observer, Telegraph, New Statesman, Evening Standard, Sunday Times and Irish Times.

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