Dr Gervase Phinn is a teacher, freelance lecturer, author, poet, educational consultant and visiting professor of education. For fourteen years he taught in a range of schools, then acted as General Adviser for Language Development in Rotherham before moving on to North Yorkshire, where he spent ten years as a school inspector - time that has provided much source material for his books. He has four grown up children and four grandchildren and lives near Doncaster. Visit Gervase's website, www.gervase-phinn.com.
Packed with delightful and authentic characters, juicy gossip, precarious romance and good old-fashioned village drama, this is a warm-hearted and hilarious account of a struggling school in a small community. - Good Book GuideA worthy successor to James Herriot, and every bit as endearing. - Alan TitchmarshWritten with all the humour and warmth one has come to expect from this master storyteller. - CountrymanAs Yorkshire's favourite school inspector turns to fiction you can enjoy memorable characters and turns of phrase. - Choice
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