A Very Private School: The #1 Sunday Times Bestselling Memoir

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times, Spectator and Waterstones Book of the Year 'Shocking and moving' Guardian 'Top marks for its searing frankness, framed in wistfully beautiful prose’ The Times At eight years of age, Charles Spencer was sent away to one of England's most 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 pupil. Spencer 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 in palpable. As is his fury that, even if somehow he had spoken up, he'd never have been believed. Charles Spencer's book 'A Very Private School' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 11-03-2024. As the Sunday Times bestselling author, Charles Spencer delves into the personal and social aspects of his education, providing a raw and unfiltered autobiography. His memoirs offer a unique perspective on the developmental stages of his life, set against the backdrop of 20th century Britain. For fans of Robert Hardman (The Making of a King), Tom Holland (The Rest is History), Jessie Childs (Henry VIII's Last Victim), and Kathryn Warner (Edward II's Nieces, The Clare Sisters). HarperCollins 2024 For fans of Robert Hardman (The Making of a King), Tom Holland (The Rest is History), Jessie Childs (Henry VIII's Last Victim), and Kathryn Warner (Edward II's Nieces, The Clare Sisters). HarperCollins 2024