A Very Private School
eBook - ePub

A Very Private School

A Memoir

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A Very Private School

A Memoir

About this book

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction: For the Empire
  7. Chapter One: Early Misgivings
  8. Chapter Two: A Place Called Maidwell
  9. Chapter Three: New Boy
  10. Chapter Four: Judging Jack
  11. Chapter Five: At Arm’s Length
  12. Chapter Six: A Day in the Life
  13. Chapter Seven: Willing Henchmen
  14. Chapter Eight: Potential Saviors
  15. Chapter Nine: Blood on the Floor
  16. Chapter Ten: Bullying
  17. Chapter Eleven: Please
  18. Chapter Twelve: My Parents
  19. Chapter Thirteen: Leaver
  20. Chapter Fourteen: Looking Back
  21. Chapter Fifteen: Facing the Past
  22. Chapter Sixteen: A Different Generation
  23. Epilogue
  24. Photographs
  25. Acknowledgments
  26. About the Author
  27. Copyright