Advantages: Well-written, light humour, interesting anecdotes Disadvantages: Too little character development, not much plot
...1998, 'The Other Side of the Dale' is a semi-biographical account of a school inspector in Yorkshire. The author, Gervase Phinn, 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 ...
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Advantages: Sweet, funny and brilliantly written Disadvantages: None
Gervase Phinn 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 ...
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26.01.2004
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The Other Side of the Dale
Amusing and serendipitous memories of Gervase Phinn's first year as County Inspector of
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Schools in North Yorkshire. The children he meets seem to be little adults, full of the language and prudence of their mostly land-worker parents; able to hold thei...
chronicles in this book his appointment to the local school inspectorate and then stories of various visits made with a background cast of brilliant characters such as t...
Schools in North Yorkshire. The children he meets seem to be little adults, full of the language and prudence of their mostly land-worker parents; able to hold thei...
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