The Climbing Frame

Fiction & Literature, Saga, Classics
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Author: Mary Hocking ISBN: 9781509819508
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publication: February 25, 2016
Imprint: Bello Language: English
Author: Mary Hocking
ISBN: 9781509819508
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publication: February 25, 2016
Imprint: Bello
Language: English

This is the story of how a trivial event may be inflated by press, television and mere gossip into a national scandal.

A small boy falls off a climbing frame in his school playground: though he is hardly at all injured, his mother accuses the headmaster of negligence. Soon the County Education Office and the County Council Education Committee are involved. Matters are complicated because the headmaster in question is in love with a young employee of the Education Office, while the Chief Education Officer, a liberal-minded man, is increasingly sniped at by his deputy, by a County councillor, and by the press.

The Climbing Frame is a compelling and totally convincing novel about a subject of which Mary Hocking had real knowledge. Both the official and the private aspects of the cause celèbre are presented with an accuracy and a sympathy which are beyond praise.

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This is the story of how a trivial event may be inflated by press, television and mere gossip into a national scandal.

A small boy falls off a climbing frame in his school playground: though he is hardly at all injured, his mother accuses the headmaster of negligence. Soon the County Education Office and the County Council Education Committee are involved. Matters are complicated because the headmaster in question is in love with a young employee of the Education Office, while the Chief Education Officer, a liberal-minded man, is increasingly sniped at by his deputy, by a County councillor, and by the press.

The Climbing Frame is a compelling and totally convincing novel about a subject of which Mary Hocking had real knowledge. Both the official and the private aspects of the cause celèbre are presented with an accuracy and a sympathy which are beyond praise.

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