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Zusatztext For those of us of a certain age! Out of the Woods but not Over the Hill is a wonderfully cheering title. When Gervase Phinn receives his peerage for services to good-heartedness! this will be the motto on his coat of arms: "Ex silvis sed non supra montem."... This entertaining and moving homework earns a good few merit marks. Gervase Phinn is not going downhill yet! by a long chalk on a blackboard Informationen zum Autor Dr Gervase Phinn is a teacher! freelance lecturer! author! poet! educational consultant and visiting professor of education. For fourteen years he taught in a range of schools! then acted as General Adviser for Language Development in Rotherham before moving on to North Yorkshire! where he spent ten years as a school inspector - time that has provided much source material for his books. He has four grown up children and four grandchildren and lives near Doncaster. Visit Gervase's website! www.gervase-phinn.com . Dr Gervase Phinn is a teacher! freelance lecturer! author! poet! educational consultant and visiting professor of education. For fourteen years he taught in a range of schools! then acted as General Adviser for Language Development in Rotherham before moving on to North Yorkshire! where he spent ten years as a school inspector - time that has provided much source material for his books. He has four grown up children and four grandchildren and lives near Doncaster. Visit Gervase's website! www.gervase-phinn.com . First novel by bestselling author of the Dales series, Gervase Phinn. A warm, funny, moving and romantic tale of life in a village primary school when a new headmistress arrives... Zusammenfassung She was wearing red shoes! With silver heels! Elisabeth Devine causes quite a stir on her arrival in the village. No one can understand why the head of a big inner city school would want to come to sleepy little Barton-in-the-Dale, to a primary with more problems than school dinners. And that's not even counting the challenges the mysterious Elisabeth herself will face: a bitter former head teacher, a grumpy caretaker and a duplicitous chair of governors, to name but a few. Then there's the gossip. After all, a woman who would wear red shoes to an interview is obviously capable of anything . . . Warm, funny and poignant, Gervase Phinn's first novel for adults creates a fictional world that's as real as can be. It will delight all his fans, and win him many more. ...
