{"product_id":"terms-conditions-life-in-girls-boarding-schools-19391979-9780349143064","title":"Terms  Conditions Life in Girls Boarding Schools","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Brilliant, hilarious... My book of the year'' \u003c\/b\u003eINDIA KNIGHT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A wonderful book'' \u003c\/b\u003eCRAIG BROWN, \u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Funny, bloodcurdling and moving''  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe cruel teachers. The pashes on other girls. The gossip. The giggles. The awful food. The homesickness. The friendships made for life. The shivering cold. Games of lacrosse, and cricket. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''The girls'' boarding school! What a ripe theme for the most observant verbal artist in our midst today - the absurdly undersung Ysenda Maxtone Graham, who has the beadiness and nosiness of the best investigative reporter, the wit of Jane Austen and a take on life which is like no one else''s. This book has been my constant companion ever since it appeared'' \u003cbr\u003eA.N. WILSON,\u003ci\u003e Evening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrilliant, hilarious...\u003c\/b\u003e My book of the year * India Knight *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFunny, bloodcurdling and moving...\u003c\/b\u003e this will make old boarding-school girls sigh with nostalgia, and everyone else sigh with relief at having avoided the experience * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003eThe girls' boarding school! What a ripe theme for the most observant verbal artist in our midst today - the absurdly underrated and undersung \u003cb\u003eYsenda Maxtone Graham, who has the beadiness and nosiness of the best investigative reporter, the wit of Jane Austen and a take on life which is like no one else's\u003c\/b\u003e. This book has been my constant companion ever since it appeared a few months ago * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003eA rich read... Ysenda Maxtone Graham has drawn aside the curtain on the hermetic, arcane world of the mid-twentieth-century girls' boarding school, which we all believed to be weird, but few of us - unless we were there - realized was as eccentric, hilariously funny, cruel, terrifying, snobbish, rapturous and emotionally intense as the profoundly outlandish environment portrayed in these pages... \u003ci\u003eTerms \u0026amp; Conditions\u003c\/i\u003e is\u003cb\u003e a funny, vivid and excruciating book,\u003c\/b\u003e which has left me filled with admiration for the brave, damaged survivors of this lost world * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eIf you think the St Trinian's films were fictitious, then this wonderful book will surely convince you that they were documentaries * Mail on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSparklingly good\u003c\/b\u003e * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003eThis\u003cb\u003e vivid, vivacious and poignant\u003c\/b\u003e look at how boarding school life used to be is as engaging as it is educational -- Eithne Farry * Sunday Express *\u003cbr\u003eA scintillating history of the mid-twentieth century girls' boarding school... this is by far \u003cb\u003ethe most entertaining book I have read this year\u003c\/b\u003e -- D.J. Taylor * Oldie *\u003cbr\u003eThis vivid study of life at girls' boarding schools between 1939 and 1979 is \u003cb\u003eboth hilarious and poignant\u003c\/b\u003e * Country Life *","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733658644823,"sku":"9780349143064","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780349143064.jpg?v=1720001074","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/terms-conditions-life-in-girls-boarding-schools-19391979-9780349143064","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}