Stiff Upper Lip
- Author Alex Renton
- Narrator David Thorpe
- Publisher Orion
- Run Time 11 hours and 56 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Independent schools, private education, Moral and social purpose of education, Politics and government.
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What to expect
Confronting the truth of his own schooldays and the crimes he witnessed, Alex Renton has revealed a much bigger story. It is of a profound malaise in the British elite, shown up by tolerance of the abuse of its own children that amounts to collusion. This culture and its traditions, and the hypocrisy, cronyism and conspiracy that underpin them, are key to any explanation of the scandals over sexual abuse, violence and cover-up in child care institutions that are now shocking the nation.
As Renton shows, complicity in this is the bleak secret at the heart of today's British elite.
Read by David Thorpe.
(p) 2017 Orion Publishing Group
Critics Review
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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
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