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A Very Private School

By: Charles Spencer
Narrated by: Charles Spencer
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'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.

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Just heart felt and emotional, unbelievable what the boys went through ,would recommend.
Good in audio too

The dignity and integrity of Charles

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needed to be written , brought bk memories of my time in private school , luckily I wasn't a boarder

brilliant brilliant

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This is a well written and interesting book. It is hard to read at points; with the institutional, physical, emotional and sexual abuse of children that is shared. However, it is important to uncover this hidden truth.
I listened to this on Audible, which made the book very engaging listening to Charles Spencer.

An interesting read

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I loved this book. It was beautifully written and read. I really warmed to Charles and was appalled about what he went through. He has such an eloquent and engaging style of writing

Charles’s honesty and integrity

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Whatever your background, abuse is abuse. It is a brave book that is worthy of your time.

Courageous and extremely well written

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