A Very Private School - Charles Spencer torrent

Category: Autobiography & Biographies
Language: English
Keywords: Beatings Boarding School Princess Diana's Brother Sexual Abuse In The 70's

Written by Charles Spencer
Read by Charles Spencer
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

‘Shocking and moving’ Guardian

‘Top marks for its searing frankness, framed in wistfully beautiful prose’ The Times

At eight years of age, Charles Spencer was sent away to one of England’s most England’s most exclusive boarding schools. Here he reveals the strange secrets of the school, and the culture of cruelty and abuse he experienced in his five years there as pupil.

Spencer reflects on the misery, hopelessness and abandonment he felt aged eight, viscerally describing the intense pain of homesickness and the vicious brutality of a boys’ school in the 1970s. All these years later, Spencer’s bafflement at the teachers’ motivations to inflict such cruelty on young children in palpable. As is his fury that, even if somehow he had spoken up, he’d never have been believed.

Charles Spencer’s book ‘A Very Private School’ was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 11-03-2024.