Hall Jonathan M. Livres

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England, 1945: while still a boy, Paul Elliott loses his parents in a car accident. Whisked away to West Yorkshire from his home in High Wycombe, Paul finds a new home with his father's brother, Don, the headmaster of Oxton House, a small preparatory school. Despite some setbacks, Paul quickly encounters academic success, setting him on a trajectory that will see him become, by his mid-twenties, Don's presumed successor at the school. In the ensuing years, as he begins to build Oxton House into a thriving, modern school, Paul will experience highs and lows in both his professional and private life. His troubled marriage to the captivating and capricious Catriona start rumours that will threaten to overturn Paul's reputation and destroy his career. School Ties' authentic and engaging insight into the prep. school world of a different era owes much to the author's own experience as a headmaster. The book's narrator, Paul, is an intriguing combination of humility and ambition, keen to do his best but sometimes his own worst enemy. The novel abounds in well-drawn, often quirky characters, from pushy parents to eccentric colleagues. In particular, Paul's uncle Don is wonderfully portrayed as a kindly pedagogue, who relies more and more on the loyalty of his nephew as the story unfolds.

Three insightful dramas exploring modern life from a gay Flamingos, Mr Elliott and The Coffee Lover's Guide to America.In Flamingos, four very different men spending a weekend in Brighton find that love and lust are trickier to handle than they thought.In The Coffee Lover's Guide to America, Joe is happily ‘married', so he's hardly likely to jump in a car and take a road trip across the US with a guy he's just met - is he?In Mr Elliott a chance encounter with one of his old students means that a ‘straight' teacher's life will never ben the same again.

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