Up and Down in the Dales - signed by Gervase Phinn

Phinn, Gervase

ISBN 10: 0141011319 ISBN 13: 9780141011318

Published by Penguin, 2005

Language: English

Condition: Used - Fine Soft cover

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First UK paperback edition first impression and rare signed as soft cover by Gervase Phinn directly to the title page without inscription. Fantastic condition for age and unread. Slight age tanning to text block edges. Slight creasing to corners and indentation to back cover otherwise no obvious flaws. Not price clipped at �7.99. Nice paperback signed copy.Signed copy Ottakar's sticker to front cover. Thanks for looking and please check out my other books and signed books on Abe.

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Title

Up and Down in the Dales - signed by Gervase Phinn

Publisher

Penguin

Publication Date

2005

Language

English

ISBN 10

0141011319

ISBN 13

9780141011318

Binding

Soft cover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

No Jacket

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Escape to the country with Gervase Phinn's heartwarming tales of life as a school inspector in Yorkshire

'Gervase Phinn's memoirs have made him a hero in school staff-rooms' Daily Telegraph
______

What's your name? I asked the child.
'Tequila,' she replied. I'm named after a drink.'
'Tequila Sunrise,' I murmured.
'No,' pouted the child. 'Tequila Braithwaite.'

Now in his fourth year as an Inspector for English in the Yorkshire Dales, Gervase Phinn still relishes visiting the schools - whether an inner-city comprehensive fraught with difficulties or a small Dales Primary school where the main danger is one of closure. With endless good humour, he copes with the little surprises that occur round every corner.

Some things never change: Mrs Savage roars, Connie rants, and Gervase's colleague in the office play verbal ping-pong. But all this can be put behind him each day when he returns home to his lovely wife, Christine, who is expecting their first baby.

Up and Down in the Dales is charming montage of Gervase Phinn's experiences will keep you amused and will win a place in your heart.

Gervase Phinn has an extraordinary talent to entertain, and the latest instalment to the Dale Series is heart-warming, wry and will make you laugh out loud.

About the Author

Gervase Phinn is a teacher, freelance lecturer, author, poet, school inspector, educational consultant and visiting professor of education - but none of these is more important than his family.

For fourteen years he taught in a range of schools, then acted as General Advisor for Language Development in Rotherham before moving on to North Yorkshire, where he spent ten years as a school inspector - time that has provided so much source material for his books. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Honorary Fello of St John's College, York.

Gervase lives with his family in Doncaster.

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