History
ISBN: 9781472239
Description
Clive Hapgood is feeling stuck. The private school he teaches at is consuming his life, no thanks to wretched headteacher Julian Crouch. The gentle country life Clive envisaged has stifled him and left his marriage on the brink. What he needs is a holiday - something to remind him and Helen what life used to be like. But when things don't go to plan, and an incident at school begins to weigh heavy on his head, Clive's life starts to unravel in front of him. Has he got it in him to turn things around, whatever the cost? After all, it's his own time he's wasting.
Reviewed on 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.