Mister Teacher

It's 1978 and jack Sheffield is beginning his second year as headmaster of a small village school in North Yorkshire. There are three letters on his desk - one makes him smile, one makes him sad, and one is destined to change his life forever. This is from nine-year-old Sebastian, suffering from leukemia in the local hospital who writes a heartbreaking letter addressed to Mister Teacher.. So begins a journey though the seasons of Yorkshire life in which the school is the natural center of the community. Vera, the school secretary who worships Margaret Thatcher; Ruby, the twenty-stone caretaker who sings like Julie Andrews, Dorothy, the coffee shop assistant who is desperate to be Wonde Woman; all these, and many more colorful characters, accompany Jack though the ups and downs of the school year. Most of all, there is lovely Beth Henderson, a teacher from a nearby school, who with her sister Laura presents jack with an unexpected dilemma