Advantages: Sweet, funny and brilliantly written Disadvantages: None
GervasePhinn is one of the best 'story tellers' I've ever read. Buy it for your Mum, your Granny, but also for your husband - mine enjoyed it as a light and amusing change from Crime and Thriller reads.
Phinn's three books describing his life as a school inspector in the Yorkshire Dales are both funny and warming. He brings the characters alive, the reader is left with both visual images and a strong feeling of knowing these folk - the reader feels close to them all, even the pretentious Mrs Savage, who is too amusing to dislike.
The children, who Phinn encounters in his work, are as funny and endearing (and I don't like kids) as the adults - again, very clever writing, and extremely easy reading, from Phinn.
If you want to read a great story, that will leave you smiling and wanting more, Phinn's 'The Other Side of the Dale ...
Advantages: Highly enjoyable easy reading. Disadvantages: None for me.
This author was recommended to me by a fellow member some considerable time ago but such was my pile of books waiting to be read, I have only now got around to reading one of his books. Naturally I searched his list and chose his very first one having discovered there were others which followed on from that.
= = The Author = =
GervasePhinn was a teacher in a number of various schools for some 14 years before becoming General Advisor for Language Development in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. In 1988, he applied successfully for the role as Senior General Inspector for English and Drama with the North Yorkshire County Council, eventually becoming Principal Advisor for the County.
An accomplished writer, he has written not only novels but plays and poems. Also an excellent orator, who after appearing on the television show, Esther ...
Advantages: Well-written, light humour, interesting anecdotes Disadvantages: Too little character development, not much plot
Published in 1998, 'The Other Side of the Dale' is a semi-biographical account of a school inspector in Yorkshire. The author, GervasePhinn, was advertised as 'The James Herriot of schools', which sounded very appealing to me. I love the Herriot books, and I was involved in my sons' primary school some years ago while they underwent OFSTED inspection, so I thought the combination could make an excellent read.
However a relative who read the book told me that it was disappointing, and really nothing like James Herriot. So rather than buying the book, I forgot about it until I happened to come across it a few months ago in a charity shop.
? What it's about ?
The author, who was a teacher until 1984, and later on a school inspector for English and Drama in Yorkshire, tells the story of his interview and appointment to ...
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Audio Cassette
Title
A Wayne in a Manger (Audio Cassette)
Author
Gervase Phinn
Genre
Short Stories
Number of Pages
2
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN
0141806389
EAN
9780141806389
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