Book info

• Title The Heart of the Dales
• Author Gervase Phinn
• Year 2007
• Genre Memoir

Escape to the country with Gervase Phinn's heartwarming tales of life as a school inspector in Yorkshire. His colourful cast of characters have become firm favourites: the mostly mad staff at County Hall, as well as the children themselves, who find ways of embarrassing the school inspectors with innocent ease. In The Heart of the Dales, we reconvene with Christine Bentley, head teacher of Winnery Nook School and now Gervase's wife and mother of their son, the well-named Mrs Savage and not forgetting the Queen of Clean - Connie.

Thoughts

This probably isn’t a book I would pick out for myself but it was recommended to me by my dad and I’m glad of it. It’s a very simple, relatively short book that tells of the adventures of a school inspector in the Yorkshire Dales in days gone by. It’s actually part of a series and I haven’t read any of the others but I might seek them out because it’s funny and has great characterisations and amusing anecdotes. Just a nice, gentle, slice of life.

Rating: 4 / 5