Gentlemen and Players

click here for more details, find new or used items	Joanne Harris New from £2.97 Used from £0.86 Pages: 512 (Paperback) ISBN: 0385609523 Pub: Doubleday Pub date: 2005-10-01 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 490208

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St. Oswald's Grammar School for boys has trained children of the elite for generations. It is a school with a high success rate and much tradition. But things are changing and not everything is for the better.

Roy Straitley has been a teacher at St. Oswald's for over thirty years. As Straitley sees tradition disappear and fancy technology begin to take over, he begins to seriously consider turning in his chalk and retiring. Email is his bane, but he could come to live with it. Not much else though. All the changes are almost overwhelming.

Five new members join the teaching staff of St. Oswald's. One of them (known often in the book as Snyde) is not there to teach promising young minds. Snyde is there for much darker reasons.

***** Now this novel is told in a far different way than I am used to! Author Joanne Harris lets Roy Straitley narrate, but also allows Snyde his turn on the soap box. This is a bold move that few authors dare. Yet Joanne Harris succeeds in making it work! Highly recommended! *****

Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.

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