The Prep School Letters: A Memoir - Softcover

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IT IS AN ABSURD thing to be sent away to boarding school. But here’s Rupert, aged 8, walking through the dark corridors of conformity and mischief, searching for an identity.

This tragi-comedy memoir, drawn from the actual letters Rupert wrote home, chronicles his disjointed world and brings to light the abandonment and loss felt then by the boy and the desire to heal as the man.

Buckland House School
20th January 1973

Dear Mummy

I hope you are well.

On Wednesday, a boy called Malcolm MacGregor fell through the roof of the shooting range. The weather is very wet. The film this week is called ‘The North West Frontier’...

Love Rupert x

The Prep School Letters has a certain fanciful abstract quality and blends non-fiction and fantasy beautifully. There have been several times when I have been completely tickled by the stories, and have been able to picture the scenes enough to go off into short reveries thanks to the detail.

Trigger Warning: Physical violence, abuse, physical and emotional neglect. Bereavement and the aftermath.

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