4th November 2023

I’ve been considering reading this since it came out, and picked up a charity shop copy which I’ve finally got to reading.

It’s the tale of a teacher at a boarding school, who doesn’t feel like he fits in, is bullied by the other staff, disrespected by the children, and is worried about the state of his marriage.

I’m afraid to say I gave up after about 100 pages. The narrative of a a series of depressing events and although I liked the character I wasn’t enjoying the bad things that kept happening to him.

In a sense, it reminds me a bit of children’s books of old, where despite best intentions everything goes hilariously wrong. But in this case the hilarity wasn’t making its way through to me.

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