A Very Private School

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER''Shocking and moving'' Guardian''A tour-de-force'' Washington PostAt eight years of age, Charles Spencer was sent away to one of England’s most exclusive boarding sc ...

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER''Shocking and moving'' Guardian''A tour-de-force'' Washington PostAt eight years of age, Charles Spencer was sent away to one of England’s most exclusive boarding schools.In this courageous and beautifully written memoir, Spencer offers a clear-eyed, first-hand account of the strange secrets of the school, and the culture of cruelty and abuse he witnessed and experienced in his five years there as a pupil.Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time, the book is his attempt to come to terms