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Gentlemen and Players

By: Joanne Harris
Narrated by: Steven Pacey
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At St Oswald’s, a long-established boys’ grammar school in the north of England, a new year has just begun. For the staff and boys of the school, a wind of unwelcome change is blowing. Suits, paperwork and Information Technology rule the world; and Roy Straitley, the eccentric veteran Latin master, is finally – reluctantly – contemplating retirement. But beneath the little rivalries, petty disputes and everyday crises of the school, a darker undercurrent stirs. And a bitter grudge, hidden and carefully nurtured for thirteen years, is about to erupt.

©2005 Joanne Harris (P)2010 Random House AUDIO GO Contemporary Fiction Genre Fiction
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I found the story silly, improbable, boring and a little confusing, although the performance was as good as it could get.

A bit second rate

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This story is based around an elite school with many characters among the teachers and pupils. Unfortunately the reader did not provide a difference in style between the two main characters and this made it difficult to know who was telling the story at the time. It may have been better told with two or even three voices.

Great Sense of School

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