Harry died years ago, but his ghost lives on-not just in Roy, but also in someone writing a strange and twisted diary to a boy called Mouser. On flamboyant and friendly teacher, Harry Clarke. Oswald’s are dominated by the past, a murky minefield of emotional clutter that once centered With the help of computers, management courses, and “internal assessments,” Roy finds himself sinking, frightened for his back, and challenged by the gnawing conviction that his age-old subject will be deleted from the curriculum: “what would I do without the perpetual soap opera of St Oswald’s to sustain. Oswald’s into the 21st century, particularlyīy a series of dreadful events involving the murder of a school boy and the ensuing scandal. Like an old ship crashing onto the rocks, Roy and the other perennial teachers find their lives upended when the New Super Head, Johnny Harrington, is appointed to drag St. Oswald’s, a school with a long history of murder, scandal, and deception. It is a story about progress and how changing times are about to hijack the insular world of Roy Straitley, This novel is much more than a prurient peek at repressed and closeted pubescent male sexuality, which is what you might expect from the subject matter. Still, it’s refreshing to read a narrative that doesn’t hide the rot that is a well-known part of English public schools.
I'm of two minds about Harris’s Different Class ,Īdmiring the novel though the author's intricate plotting sometimes weighs the book down. Book review: Joanne Harris's *Different Class*
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