THE HEART OF THE DALES

Hardback. Escape to the country with the author's heart warming 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. 381pp. lge. 8vo. F. in F. dw.