2022/086: Different Class -- Joanne Harris

2022/086: Different Class -- Joanne Harris

Memory isn’t a camera. It’s an anthill, a thing of layers, built around a central core. And inside the core, there are sleeping things. Things that change, and sting, and fly. Things that come out of the walls at night, and crawl all over everything. [loc. 3987]

Second in the St Oswald's trilogy, which began with Gentlemen and Players. After the upheavals of that novel, St Oswald's is teetering on the brink of failure: a Crisis Team is brought in to turn things round, but Roy Straitley, Latin master and eccentric-but-beloved technophobe, is horrified to find that the 'Super-Head' leading the Crisis Team is none other than Johnny Harrington, who as a boy almost cost Straitley his job, 'and cost the School a whole lot more'. ( Read more... )