Book description
She was wearing red shoes! With silver heels! Elisabeth Devine causes
quite a stir on her arrival in the village. No one can understand why
the head of a big inner city school would want to come to sleepy little
Barton-in-the-Dale, to a primary with more problems than school dinners.
And that's not even counting the challenges the mysterious Elisabeth
herself will face: a bitter former head teacher, a grumpy caretaker and
a duplicitous chair of governors, to name but a few. Then there's the
gossip. After all, a woman who would wear red shoes to an interview is
obviously capable of anything . . . Warm, funny and poignant, Gervase
Phinn's first novel for adults creates a fictional world that's as real
as can be. It will delight all his fans, and win him many more.
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.
