Out of the Woods But Not Over the Hill
$38.29
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
11 July 2011
Summary
For Gervase Phinn, growing old is not about a leisurely walk to the pub for a game of dominoes or snoozing in his favourite armchair. As this sparkling collection of his very best humorous writing shows, he may be ‘out of the woods’ but he is certainly not ‘over the hill’.
Looking back over more than sixty years of family life, teaching, inspecting schools, writing and public speaking, Gervase never fails to unearth humour, character, warmth and wisdom from the most diverse of experie…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781444705409 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1444705407 |
| Author: | Gervase Phinn |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder Paperback |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 11 July 2011 |
| Weight: | 204g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 19mm |
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Packed with hilarious yarns on family, growing up and growing old, this is a marvellous book– Express
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 - Independent, Jonathan Sale
Packed with hilarious yarns on family, growing up and growing old, this is a marvellous book - ExpressAbout The Author
Gervase Phinn
Gervase Phinn is a teacher, freelance lecturer, author, poet, school inspector, 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 is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, York. He lives with his family near Doncaster.
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