Gentlemen & Players

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• Class war

  Gentlemen & Players by Joanne Harris 512pp, Doubleday, £14.99 She has become such a fixture of the middlebrow market that it's hard to believe it's only six years since Joanne Harris broke into the bestseller lists. Mind you, since Chocolat allowed h ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• The Best Reviews: Joanne Harris, Gentlemen & Players

  "Exciting thriller" Only the elite attend St. Oswald's boys' grammar school in Northern England. Popular classics teacher Roy Straitley, in his ninety-ninth term, recognizes that truism as he for instance could never have attended this upper crust sc ... (read full critics)

  thebestreviews published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

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  The book was excellent! It kept me hooked throughout the entire novel. Surprises at every chapter.

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  Ychika said on Aug 23, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  What a really good novel Joanne Harris has written with Gentleman and Players. It is an enthralling and haunting read and in a new direction for this author. It really held my attention from the beginning but the last hundred pages or so I just had to keep going. It deals with deception, betrayal, a ... (continue)

  What a really good novel Joanne Harris has written with Gentleman and Players. It is an enthralling and haunting read and in a new direction for this author. It really held my attention from the beginning but the last hundred pages or so I just had to keep going. It deals with deception, betrayal, ambition and forbidden longings, at an exclusive boys' school in the English countryside. The two protagonists are worthy adversaries. One is a revered, slightly eccentric Classics teacher in danger of becoming an unwanted anachronism. The other is a youngster from a working-class background who yearns for the elitism the school represents. The story alternates between the two viewpoints. The child is now an adult, exacting revenge for a devastating childhood experience involving St.Oswald's School - an experience revealed to the reader slowly and tantalizingly as the story unfolds. There is a surprising twist toward the end of the novel which really caught me out as thought I had it all sussed! Well worth reading.

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  Lindyloumac said on Sep 28, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  A wicked story with an excellent plot twist!

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  Embla said on Jul 8, 2008 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Mass Market Paperback
• ISBN-10: 0552773379
• ISBN-13: 9780552773379
• Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD and eBook
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