Starting Over by Jack Sheffield - ISBN: 9780552174039
Paperback
New teacher, hidden past, small village, can love begin again?

Starting Over

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  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    15 January 2019

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Summary

Jack Sheffield’s delightful new novel - a nostalgic and humorous story set in the early 1950s.

Ragley, 1952.

Lily has just arrived, ready to begin her first year as a teacher at the village school. There to welcome her is John Pruett, who, after his years in the war, has settled into the role of headmaster. Tom, the local bobby, is also on hand to make her feel at home up north. But Lily has a secret lurking in her past that threatens the new life she’s trying to build.

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9780552174039
ISBN-10:0552174033
Author:Jack Sheffield
Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd
Imprint:Corgi Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:15 January 2019
Weight:241g
Dimensions:198mm x 127mm x 21mm
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Critics Review

Wry observation and heartwarming humour in equal measure

Wry observation and heartwarming humour in equal measure * Alan Titchmarsh *
Overflowing with amusing anecdotes * Daily Express *
Amusing adventures at the North Yorkshire village school * Choice *
Jack Sheffield’s in a class of his own * York Press *

About The Author

Jack Sheffield

Jack Sheffield grew up in the tough environment of Gipton Estate, in North East Leeds. After a job as a ‘pitch boy’, repairing roofs, he became a Corona Pop man before going to St John’s College, York, and training to be a teacher. In the late seventies and eighties, he was a headteacher of two schools in North Yorkshire before becoming Senior Lecturer in Primary Education at Bretton Hall College of the University of Leeds. It was at this time he began to record his many amusing stories of village life as portrayed in Teacher, Teacher!, Mister Teacher, Dear Teacher, Village Teacher, Please Sir!, Educating Jack, School’s Out!, Silent Night, Star Teacher, Happiest Days, Starting Over, Changing Times, Back to School, School Days and Last Day of School. He lives in Hampshire.

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