Village Teacher by Jack Sheffield (Bantam Press, £10.99) (From The Northern Echo)
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Village Teacher by Jack Sheffield (Bantam Press, £10.99)
11:57am Saturday 20th February 2010 in
IT’S 1980, and as recession bites, Ragley- on-the-Forest School is facing the axe. Headteacher Jack Sheffield is worried about the future... will his beloved school survive the latest round of closures? And when will fiancee Beth agree to a date for their wedding?
Meanwhile, life goes on in the little Yorkshire village that Jack calls home – and at its heart are the children he teaches. His stories of the pupils and staff at Ragley are deftly scripted and very funny – although there are sad moments that bring the reader back down to earth with a bang.
This is the fourth in the Teacher series, and once more Jack Sheffield has used his considerable skills as a writer to relate the highs and lows of school life in the early 1980s.
Will Ragley survive? You’ll have to read book number five to find out.
Top of the class.
Sandra Mangan
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