School's Out! - Softcover

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Jack Sheffield was born in 1945 and gew up in the tough environment of Gipton Estate in north-east Leeds. After training to be a teacher, he became a headteacher in two North Yorkshire schools before becoming a Senior Lecturer at Bretton Hall College. It was at this time that he began to record his many amusing stories of Yorkshire village life, which tell the life of a head teacher in the fictional village of Ragley-on-the-Forest. He now lives in York and Hampshire.

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As the new school year begins, Jack Sheffield prepares for an even more eventful year than usual. A new teacher is appointed, and before long, tongues start to wag.

Meanwhile, five-year-old Madonna Fazackerly makes her mark in an unexpected way, life changes dramatically for Ruby the caretaker and, in the village coffee shop, Dorothy Humpleby plans a dirty weekend.

It's the era of the new CD player, Microsoft Word, the McDonald's McNugget, cabbage patch dolls, the threat of a miners' strike and a final farewell to the halfpenny piece.

Jack has to manage a year of triumph and tragedy.