The Heart of the Dales
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Escape to the country with Gervase Phinn’s heartwarming tales of life as a school inspector in Yorkshire’Gervase Phinn’s memoirs have made him a hero in school staff-rooms’ Daily TelegraphHis colourful cast of characters have become firm favourites: the mostly mad staff at County Hall, as well as the children themselves, who find ways of embarrassing the school inspectors with innocent ease.In The Heart of the Dales, we reconvene with Christine Bentley, head teacher of Winnery Nook School and now Gervase’s wife and mother of their son, the well-named Mrs Savage and not forgetting the Queen of Clean – Connie.Gervase Phinn has an extraordinary talent to entertain, and the latest instalment to the Dale Series is heart-warming, wry and will make you laugh out loud.
Additional information
Weight | 0.276 kg |
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Dimensions | 2.5 × 13 × 19.7 cm |
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Format | Paperback |
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Pages | 400 |
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Year Published | 2009-9-24 |
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Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
ISBN 10 | 0141027673 |
About The Author | Gervase Phinn is a teacher, freelance lecturer, author, poet, school inspector, educational consultant and visiting professor of education – but none of these is more important than his family.For fourteen years he taught in a range of schools, then acted as General Advisor for Language Development in Rotherham before moving on to North Yorkshire, where he spent ten years as a school inspector – time that has provided so much source material for his books. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Honorary Fello of St John's College, York.Gervase lives with his family in Doncaster. |
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