Head Over Heels in the Dales
- ISBN-10
- 014100522X
- ISBN-13
- 9780141005225
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-03-06
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Author
- Gervase Phinn
Description
Gervase Phinn, school inspector, begins his third year with a spring in his step for in April he will marry Christine Bentley, head teacher of Winnery Nook School. But before then he has to suffer the wicked repartee of his fellow inspectors on the subjects of love and marriage. The well-named Mrs Savage still attempts to exert her power via incomprehensible memos, and Connie continues to rule the Staff Development Centre with a broom of iron and duster of disapproval at any dirty marks. In theschools themselves Gervase Phinn faces every challenge with humour that is rarely far from the surface.
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