Product Description

Gervase Phinn is back with his tales of life as a schools inspector in Yorkshire. His colourful cast of characters have now 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. 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. 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11876 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-26
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

About the Author
Gervase Phinn is now nationally recognised as a bestselling author, following the immense success of his books The Other Side of the Dale, Over Hill and Dale, Up and Down in the Dales and Head Over Heels in the Dales, all of which have been top ten bestsellers. He is also the author of the hugely successful A Wayne in a Manger. He is married with four children and lives near Doncaster.

Customer Reviews

Crying with laughter
As always Gervase Phinn does it again. I spent less than a week reading this thoroughly good book. All the familiar characters are back and a few new little gems along the way. Connie, Julie, Mrs Savage, plus an array of wonderful children and the things 'kids say'! Throughout it though there are elements to make you think, and perhaps look at life differently. This book will make you cry with laughter, it did me and when you are in bed anyone listening would have wondered what was happening! I hope this isn't the last book Gervase writes in the 'Dales' series - you have so much more I am sure. Write another one!!

Back in the Dales
Gervase Phinn continues to delight in his latest offering The Heart Of The Dales. Still working as a school inspector his tales of the bluntness and honestness of the Yorkshire children will have you once more in stitches, especially when he goes to see a version of the Nativity Play written by the children and performed in Yorkshire dialect, with lines like "Hey up,Joseph". I thoroughly recommend this book.

Hopefully more books to come
I laughed the whole way through this wonderful book. As ever Gervase entertains us continually as we welcome old friends back into our lives. It would be a pity if there were not a few more books in this series. Keep up the good work Gervase..they only get better.