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School's Out!
- Author
- Jack Sheffield
- Narrator
- Gordon Griffin
- Publisher
- Transworld
- Publish Date
- 16 January 2014
- Run Time
- 9 hours 59 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
As the new school year begins, Jack Sheffield prepares for an even more eventful year than usual. A new teacher is appointed, and before long tongues start to wag.
Meanwhile, five-year old Madona Fazackerly makes her mark in an unexpected way, life changes dramatically for Ruby the caretaker and, in the village Coffee Shop, Dorothy Humpleby plans a dirty weekend.
It’s 1983 - the era of the new CD player, Microsoft Word, the McDonalds McNugget, cabbage patch dolls, the threat of a miners’ strike and a final farewell to the halfpenny piece.
Jack has to manage a year of triumph and tragedy…
Critics Review
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School and village life is painted with compassion and an exquisite sense of detail, deftly balancing humour and tragedy.
Choice magazine
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Details
- Author
- Jack Sheffield
- Narrator
- Gordon Griffin
- Duration
- 9 hours 59 minutes
- Release Date
- 16 January 2014
- ISBN
- 9781473508842
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Transworld
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
As the new school year begins, Jack Sheffield prepares for an even more eventful year than usual. A new teacher is appointed, and before long tongues start to wag.Meanwhile, five-year old Madona Fazackerly makes her mark in an unexpected way, life changes dramatically for Ruby the caretaker and, in the village Coffee Shop, Dorothy Humpleby plans a dirty weekend.It’s 1983 - the era of the new CD player, Microsoft Word, the McDonalds McNugget, cabbage patch dolls, the threat of a miners’ strike and a final farewell to the halfpenny piece.Jack has to manage a year of triumph and tragedy…
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