‘A Very Private School - a memoir’ by Charles Spencer | BOOK REVIEW

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‘A Very Private School’ by Charles Spencer is a book about his days at Maidwell. It’s dark, harrowing, deeply sad particularly towards the end, but captivating and a very interesting story. Charles Spencer is also very brave to admit to some of the things that happened to him. I highly recommend this book.
I for one feel very lucky to be privileged without the hideous down side of a youth spent at a hard boarding school. I feel that the so called ‘elite’ aren’t always as well off as we tend to place them in our imaginations.
If you don’t believe in evil you either haven’t been confronted by it or you haven’t read enough or thought deeply enough about things. This is another of those books that will wake you up to some of the hideous things caused by human nature when left to run amok

[@richardrickford3028]

This is a very excellent and honest review. I say that as someone who has been to boarding school myself and was very badly abused both physically, psychologically and sexually. Please do get Charles' Spencer's book everyone. To let you know Piers Cross is an excellent therapist who specialises in empowering people who have been badly damaged at boarding school or are in a relationship with someone who has been. He has done a really excellent video on U tube interviewing Charles Spencer about his book. It is really great hear such two emotionally honest and mature men talking to each other about this very very difficult subject. Also others to watch out for are the therapist Joy Shaverin who coined the term boarding school syndrome and the psychological historian Nick Duffel whose two books The Making of Them and Wounded Leaders are simply excellent. If you have been seriously psychologically wounded by your experiences at boarding school my heart goes right out you and there is an organisation called Boarding School Survivors Support. Remember help is out there and never believe the frightened hateful propaganda of the bullies. You really really are worth it.

[@maggygwire]

Thanks @richardrickford3028 for the comment. That’s really good to read and great information. Thanks again

[@steveaustin7306]

My experience starting at age 8. Abused by matron. It was through out thar system in every country it was deployed in. Piers is very good.

[@lesleydonnelly2622]

I am reading it, it's really sad. He has a really good writing style.

[@maggygwire]

Completely agree

[@skaboosh]

And Robert Montague's book and Hickson's Poisoned Bowl etc etc etc As he eluded, in interview, these kind of abused people may in some cases not be the best people to make decisions for the general populace, i think of Blair... although Charles seems very attached to reality and his heart.... but Blair, Cameron, etc etc etc then all the stories and allegations of Monty, Churchill, Thatcher, Savile, Prince Philip, Ted Heath, Leon Britten, Proctor etc etc etc it seems it's a loop of behaviour creating psyco or socio-pathic type people who are determined to crawl to the top of politics or whatever... then there's sra also.... Brian Harvey's red rooms experiences and Westbrooks abuse as a kid, it just goes on and on and on,