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Jilly Cooper
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Publisher | Corgi | ||
ISBN | 0552151564 | ||
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Vicky
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Synopsis
At Bagley Hall, a notoriously wild, but increasingly academic, independent, crammed with the children of the famous, trouble is afoot. The ambitious and fatally attractive headmaster, Hengist Brett-Taylor, hatches a plan to share the facilities of his school with Larkminster Comprehensive - known locally, as 'Larks'. His reasons for doing so are purely financial, but he is encouraged by the opportunities the scheme gives him for frequent meetings with Janna Curtis, the dynamic new head of Larks, who has been drafted in to save what is a fast-sinking school from closure. Janna is young, pretty, enthusiastic and vastly brave - and she will do anything to rescue her demoralised, run-down and cash-strapped school. Neither parents nor staff of either school are too keen on this radical move, although some can see the possible financial advantages. For the students, however, it offers great opportunities to get up to even more mayhem than usual.
Jilly Cooper at Waterstones Piccadilly May 2007
Review
Jilly Cooper has written quite the most delicious book on teaching! It is truly Wicked!
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book as my youngest daughter is coming to the end of her PGCE in teaching and from Jilly's description of some of the children in the book she is very definitely teaching now!
Wicked is about two very different schools - one - Bagley Hall which is Independent - the other Larkminster a Comprehensive but can their head teachers bring the children of the schools together without causing mayhem!!
Hengist Brett-Taylor Bagley Hall's head teacher is a charismatic flirt who is hatching a scheme to get vast tax concessions for his school but he must benefit Larminster the locally Comprehensive to get it. Can he persuade Janna Curtis the very new and young Head teacher to go along with his plans!
She is a very independent fiesty woman who is desperate to turn her very demoralised and cash strapped school around and raise the standards. But to do that she not only has to get her teachers on her side but the children - especially the Feral gang.
Jilly Cooper is very definitely a people watcher with her characters being very well rounded from her observations over 4 years of research and also teaching English herself to find out what it was like from the teacher's side.
Wicked is a rollacking page turner that will make you laugh but also think very hard as to what education and society are doing to our children - the next generation.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough!
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