Little Village School by Gervase Phinn

She was wearing red shoes! With silver heels!

Elisabeth Devine causes quite a stir on her arrival in the village. No one can understand why the head of a big inner city school would want to come to sleepy little Barton-in-the-Dale, to a primary with more problems than school dinners. And that’s not even counting the challenges the mysterious Elisabeth herself will face: a bitter former head teacher, a grumpy caretaker and a duplicitous chair of governors, to name but a few.

Then there’s the gossip. After all, a woman who would wear red shoes to an interview is obviously capable of anything . . .

Warm, funny and poignant, Gervase Phinn’s first novel for adults creates a fictional world that’s as real as can be. It will delight all his fans, and win him many more.

First novel by bestselling author of the Dales series, Gervase Phinn. A warm, funny, moving and romantic tale of life in a village primary school when a new headmistress arrives…

About the Author: Gervase Phinn is a teacher, freelance lecturer, author, poet, school inspector, 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 is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, York. He lives with his family near Doncaster. Visit Gervase’s website, www.gervase-phinn.com.

07 Jun 2012
 

The Little Village School: Book 1 in the gorgeously uplifting Little Village School series by Gervase Phinn ISBN 9781444705584