The Other Side of the Dale
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Gervase Phinn - "your name sounds like a brand of French yoghurt" he is told - is appointed as school inspector in North Yorkshire, visiting schools in and around the picturesque Dales county. At the centre of this brilliantly woven tapestry of characters - which include fellow inspectors, the wildly eccentric caretaker, the sporting chairman of governors, the visiting Ministry bigwigs - are the devoted teachers and their completely unpredictable charges. In his invigorating and witty style,Gervase Phinn unfolds the dramas that occur during his first year as a school inspector, with many adventures beckoning around the corner...
Format: Hardback, 288 pages, 145mm x 224mm, 466 g
Published: 1998, Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom
Genre: Autobiography: General
Published: 1998, Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom
Genre: Autobiography: General
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Gervase Phinn - "your name sounds like a brand of French yoghurt" he is told - is appointed as school inspector in North Yorkshire, visiting schools in and around the picturesque Dales county. At the centre of this brilliantly woven tapestry of characters - which include fellow inspectors, the wildly eccentric caretaker, the sporting chairman of governors, the visiting Ministry bigwigs - are the devoted teachers and their completely unpredictable charges. In his invigorating and witty style,Gervase Phinn unfolds the dramas that occur during his first year as a school inspector, with many adventures beckoning around the corner...
The Other Side of the Dale