School's Out!

Review<br/><br/>• "Overflowing with amusing anecdotes." --Daily Express<br/><br/>• "Wry observation and heartwarming humour in equal measure." --Alan Titchmarsh<br/><br/>Product Description<br/><br/>It's 1983 and Jack Sheffield returns to Ragley village school for his seventh year as headmaster. A new teacher arrives and tongues start to wag!<br/><br/>Five-year-old Madonna Fazackerly makes her mark in an unexpected way, life changes dramatically for Ruby the Caretaker and, in the village Coffee Shop, Dorothy Humpleby plans a dirty weekend.<br/><br/>It's the time of the new CD player, Microsoft's Word software, the McDonald's McNugget, cabbage patch dolls, the threat of a miners' strike and a final farewell to the halfpence piece.<br/><br/>Meanwhile Jack has to manage a year of triumph and tragedy.<br/><br/>About the Author<br/><br/>JACK SHEFFIELD was born in 1945 and gew up in the tough environment of Gipton Estate in north-east Leeds. After training to be a teacher, he became a headteacher in two North Yorkshire schools before becoming a Senior Lecturer at Bretton Hall College. It was at this time that he began to record his many amusing stories of Yorkshire village life, which tell the life of a head teacher in the fictional village of Ragley-on-the-Forest. He now lives in York and Hampshire.