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A revealing account of the abuse that occurs in Britain's elite boarding schools and its long cultural fall-out.

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Alex Renton is an award-winning journalist whose career has ranged from theatre criticism, food writing and the investigation of child abuse to work as a political correspondent and war reporter in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He is also the author of PLANET CARNIVORE. Educated at Ashdown House and Eton, he now lives in Edinburgh with his wife, son and daughter.

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At last, a scrupulously honest insight into private boarding education in Britain - ranging from the abuse to which it subjects the child, and the family, to the abuse of Britain's social order in laying the foundation to buying your child's way to the top
*Jon Snow*

Renton mixes memoir and anecdote with deeply researched history... this is a brave and necessary book
*GUARDIAN*

A thoughtful and sensitive indictment of one of the cornerstones of the British establishment
*OBSERVER*

Gruelling and gripping
*EVENING STANDARD*

Renton has the thirst for truth, and for exposing depravity, of a Gitta Sereny
*THE TIMES*

[A] masterful expose of private school perversion
*SKY NEWS*

Stiff Upper Lip is shocking, gripping and sobering
*SUNDAY TELEGRAPH*

Enormously valuable
*DAILY MAIL*

Stiff Upper Lip kept me absolutely enthralled ... Even if you never went near a public school, the book is a phenomenal read: it kept me up all night
*NEWSTALK*

Impressive in its breadth and depth
*DAILY EXPRESS*

Stiff Upper Lip is a furious, closely researched polemic against boarding school
*COUNTRY LIFE*

Quite breathtaking ... If you want to understand anything about institutional abuse it is required reading
*LBC*

Grimly absorbing
*NEW STATESMAN*

This is a fascinating book
*PROSPECT*

Personal revelations are expertly woven into interview material, social history and theorising by psychologists and other writers ... Renton deserves praise and attention for disturbing our equanimity about this tradition
*FINANCIAL TIMES*

This is a well-researched study, which draws on a variety of historical sources in addition to some searing near-contemporary accounts of childhood unhappiness and its long-lasting effects
*THE TABLET*

Brilliantly deconstructs the myth of the British stiff upper lip
*Rod Liddle*

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