A passionate, personal book by a prize-winning memoir writer about boarding schools, the damage they do, and power in this country
'Read this book' Alastair Campbell
'A really wonderful book' Nigella Lawson via Twitter
In 1975 Richard Beard was sent away to boarding school. So were Boris Johnson and David Cameron.
He didn't enjoy it. But the first and most important lesson was not to let that show.
A public school education has long been accepted in Britain as a preparation for leadership, but being separated from your parents at a young age is traumatic. What sort of adult does it mould? Tackling debates about privilege head-on, Sad Little Men reveals what happens when you put a succession of men from boarding schools into positions of influence, including at 10 Downing Street, and asks the question- is this really who we want in charge?
'The most important book I've read this year' Adam Rutherford
A passionate, personal book by a prize-winning memoir writer about boarding schools, the damage they do, and power in this country
'Read this book' Alastair Campbell
'A really wonderful book' Nigella Lawson via Twitter
In 1975 Richard Beard was sent away to boarding school. So were Boris Johnson and David Cameron.
He didn't enjoy it. But the first and most important lesson was not to let that show.
A public school education has long been accepted in Britain as a preparation for leadership, but being separated from your parents at a young age is traumatic. What sort of adult does it mould? Tackling debates about privilege head-on, Sad Little Men reveals what happens when you put a succession of men from boarding schools into positions of influence, including at 10 Downing Street, and asks the question- is this really who we want in charge?
'The most important book I've read this year' Adam Rutherford
Richard Beard is the author of Acts of the Assassins, which was
shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize, and most recently the memoir
The Day That Went Missing, which was shortlisted for the Rathbones
Folio Prize, the James Tait Black Prize and won the PEN Ackerley
Prize. In the United States the book was a finalist for the
National Book Critics Circle Award.
In the twenty years since his first book, he has published
critically acclaimed novels and narrative non-fiction, including
Becoming Drusilla, the story of how a friendship between two men
was changed by a gender transition.
He has served as a judge for Canada's Giller Prize and for the BBC
and Costa Short Story Awards, and is a dour opening batsman for the
Authors Cricket Club.
Read this book
*Alastair Campbell*
Definitive and brilliantly expressed
*Viv Groskop*
Dazzling in its anger and the force of its argument
*Times Literary Supplement*
A sensitive and incisive analysis of the British class
system...insanely readable
*Tom Holland, author of Dominion*
One of the finest polemics I have ever come across... Sad Little
Men has been an eye-opener
*Spectator*
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