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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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A wonderfully brave and honest account of the harsh grisly truth delivered with precious vulnerability thank you

Honest, grisly, vulnerable and brave

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Very well written, beautifully narrated, very informative and interesting from a modern history perspective, and absolutely heart wrenching memoir.
Charles Spencer has very bravely opened the way for others to tell of their experiences.
Thank you for that.
The police should really investigate the crimes raised in this book as some of the perpetrators are still alive.

Dicken’s “Dotheboys Hall”!

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I loved it was read by Charles Spencer himself, a most interesting listen and will listen to this again, have added it to my favourites

The honesty

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Shocking account of a very public school.
Those poor children.
A disturbing read and an uncomfortable one.

Nightmare School

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I am pleased that Charles Spencer was so open in his book about what he and the students at the school they attended were subject to. The adults who inflicted such pain have been outed and by speaking out he will no doubt help others to try to come to terms with their pasts.

The pain inflicted on young children

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