Description
Knotshead is a school catering for the children of the rich, famous, liberal - and deluded. With its progressive curriculum, complacent staff and beautiful grounds, it looks like Paradise. But the clever, the odd and the bookish are relentlessly persecuted as pupils make their own rules in a bubble of privilege and prejudice. When Alice, the Headmaster's intellectual step-daughter, and the much-expelled American millionaire Winthrop T Sheen join forces against the school bully, Grub Viner, a gifted pianist and school "joker", has to choose between love and loyalty, and black comedy escalates to murder.
Savagely funny, compelling and a cult classic, A Private Place has struck a chord with generations. It's now available with a new afterword by the author.
About the Author
Amanda Craig is a British novelist, short-story writer and critic. After a brief time in advertising and PR, she became a journalist for newspapers such as the Sunday Times, Observer, Daily Telegraph and Independent, winning both the Young Journalist of the Year and the Catherine Pakenham Award. She was the children's critic for the Independent on Sunday and The Times. She still reviews children's books for the New Statesman, and literary fiction for the Observer, but is mostly a full-time novelist. Her novel Hearts and Minds was longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and The Lie of the Land was chosen as book of the year by the Guardian, Observer, Telegraph, New Statesman, Evening Standard, Sunday Times and Irish Times.
Reviews
A genuinely gripping novel * Spectator *
A genuinely gripping novel * Spectator *
A viciously clever satire on progressive schools . . . Will cause distress in liberal circles * Independent *
A viciously clever satire on progressive schools . . . Will cause distress in liberal circles * Independent *
Bitingly funny and horribly accurate * Telegraph *
Bitingly funny and horribly accurate * Telegraph *
Craig writes with ruthless honesty and jet black wit * Cosmopolitan *
Craig writes with ruthless honesty and jet black wit * Cosmopolitan *
Book Information
ISBN 9780349139548
Author Amanda Craig
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Abacus
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Weight(grams) 206g
Dimensions(mm) 130mm * 201mm * 19mm
Savagely funny, compelling and a cult classic, A Private Place has struck a chord with generations. It's now available with a new afterword by the author.
About the Author
Amanda Craig is a British novelist, short-story writer and critic. After a brief time in advertising and PR, she became a journalist for newspapers such as the Sunday Times, Observer, Daily Telegraph and Independent, winning both the Young Journalist of the Year and the Catherine Pakenham Award. She was the children's critic for the Independent on Sunday and The Times. She still reviews children's books for the New Statesman, and literary fiction for the Observer, but is mostly a full-time novelist. Her novel Hearts and Minds was longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and The Lie of the Land was chosen as book of the year by the Guardian, Observer, Telegraph, New Statesman, Evening Standard, Sunday Times and Irish Times.
Reviews
A genuinely gripping novel * Spectator *
A genuinely gripping novel * Spectator *
A viciously clever satire on progressive schools . . . Will cause distress in liberal circles * Independent *
A viciously clever satire on progressive schools . . . Will cause distress in liberal circles * Independent *
Bitingly funny and horribly accurate * Telegraph *
Bitingly funny and horribly accurate * Telegraph *
Craig writes with ruthless honesty and jet black wit * Cosmopolitan *
Craig writes with ruthless honesty and jet black wit * Cosmopolitan *
Book Information
ISBN 9780349139548
Author Amanda Craig
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Abacus
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Weight(grams) 206g
Dimensions(mm) 130mm * 201mm * 19mm
