{"product_id":"a-very-private-school-by-charles-spencer-9780008666118","title":"A Very Private School","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eTimes\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSpectator\u003c\/em\u003e and Waterstones Book of the Year\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Shocking and moving' \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Top marks for its searing frankness, framed in wistfully beautiful prose’ \u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt eight years of age, Charles Spencer was sent away to one of England's most exclusive boarding schools. Here he reveals the strange secrets of the school, and the culture of cruelty and abuse he experienced in his five years there as a pupil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSpencer reflects on the misery, hopelessness and abandonment he felt aged eight, viscerally describing the intense pain of homesickness and the vicious brutality of a boys' school in the 1970s. All these years later, Spencer's bafflement at the teachers' motivations to inflict such cruelty on young children is palpable. As is his fury that, even if somehow he had spoken up, he'd never have been believed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCharles Spencer's book \u003ci\u003eA Very Private School\u003c\/i\u003e was a Sunday Times bestseller w\/c 11-03-2024.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46825513091308,"sku":"9780008666118","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/1495293482191.jpg?v=1758103229","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/a-very-private-school-by-charles-spencer-9780008666118","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}