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Social & cultural history
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Little, Brown Audio
- Paperback Oct 31, 2017 | 9780349143064 | RRP $26.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Nov 2, 2017 | 9781405539456 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Nov 2, 2017 | 9780349143057 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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In Terms & Conditions Ysenda Maxtone Graham speaks to members of a lost tribe - the boarding school women, grandmothers now and the backbone of the nation, who look back on their experiences with a mixture of horror and humour
'Brilliant, hilarious... My book of the year' INDIA KNIGHT
'A wonderful book' CRAIG BROWN, Mail on Sunday
'Funny, bloodcurdling and moving' Daily Mail
The cruel teachers. The pashes on other girls. The gossip. The giggles. The awful food. The homesickness. The friendships made for life. The shivering cold. Games of lacrosse, and cricket.
'The girls' boarding school! What a ripe theme for the most observant verbal artist in our midst today - the absurdly undersung Ysenda Maxtone Graham, who has the beadiness and nosiness of the best investigative reporter, the wit of Jane Austen and a take on life which is like no one else's. This book has been my constant companion ever since it appeared'
A.N. WILSON, Evening Standard
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Praise for Terms & Conditions: Life in Girls' Boarding Schools, 1939-1979
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The most brilliant, hilarious book
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This is not a history of women's boarding schools. It's not easy to say where, exactly, you would shelve it. It could be under memoir. Or is it more like anthropology? . . . The other option would be comedy, as it's the funniest book you'll read all year
Ysenda Maxtone Graham
Ysenda Maxtone Graham was born in 1962 and educated at The King's School, Canterbury and Girton College, Cambridge. She has written widely for many newspapers and magazines, as features writer, book reviewer and columnist. She is the author of The Church Hesitant: A Portrait of the Church of England; The Real Mrs Miniver, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography of the Year Award; and Mr Tibbits's Catholic School. She lives in London with her husband and their three sons.
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