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Synopsis
Miss Barrington-Huntley took off her steel-framed
spectacles and polished them deliberately. ‘Mr
Sheffield,’ she said, ‘after careful consideration
we have decided to offer you the very challenging post
of headmaster of Ragley School’.
It's 1977 and Jack Sheffield arrives at a small village
primary school in North Yorkshire. Little does he imagine
what the first year will hold in store as he has to
grapple with:
Ruby, the 20 stone caretaker with an acute spelling
problem;
Vera, the school secretary who worships Margaret Thatcher;
Ping, the little Vietnamese refugee who becomes the
school’s best reader and poet;
Deke Ramsbottom, a singing cowboy, father of Wayne,
Shane and Clint;
and many others, including a groundsman who grows giant
carrots, a barmaid parent who requests sex lessons,
and a five-year-old boy whose language is colourful
in the extreme.
And then there's beautiful, bright Beth Henderson,
a deputy head, who is irresistibly attractive to the
young headmaster...
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