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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. In new condition except for a signed gift message in front to Patrick Reytians (artist) possibly from author. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Of course in those far off days the whole of the education system both within the family and in the community at large was based on a respect for constituted authorities and supported by more than a modi- cum of fear of punishment or worse humiliation. Those of us who are survived it however not especially resentful particularly when it gave us a sense of achievement and of triumph over minor adversity. Indeed one of the relatively few pleasures in growing older is to see one’s life experiences from an increasingly broad vantage point and to begin to understand the realities behind the fa?ades. And this is one of the great virtues of Ken Dutton’s biography of lan Henning. It brings to life the man we knew but it at the same time shows us how little we each individually knew of him. It pulls together the fragments- -some so familiar but others quite unsuspected -to build a coherent picture. It enables us to comprehend the contradictions that may have once led us to assumptions that now prove so wrong.