In 1949 Edward Blishen presented himself at a London emergency training college to be hastily converted into a teacher. During the year that followed, it struck him later, he was also being emergency-trained as a husband and father.
Set in the period when human traffic was on the move again after the long wartime hold-up, A Nest of Teachers is a rueful comedy of courtship and young marriage 1940s style. But above all it offers us the Blishen-eye-view - wise, funny and acutely perceptive - of the pains and pleasures of being a teacher - and what the author sees as the eternal impossibility of being trained as one.
Charming, witty and a pleasure to read
- Marghanita Laski, Country Life
Anyone who has ever ventured out on a bungaloid limb with his heart in his boots to teach will appreciate the authenticity of Mr Blishen s touching and nerve-racking account; readers who enjoy an inquisitive, undeceived and celebratory prose style will delight in a subtle fiction - Kit Wright, New Statesman
Undiluted pleasure - Good Housekeeping
Set in the period when human traffic was on the move again after the long wartime hold-up, A Nest of Teachers is a rueful comedy of courtship and young marriage 1940s style. But above all it offers us the Blishen-eye-view - wise, funny and acutely perceptive - of the pains and pleasures of being a teacher - and what the author sees as the eternal impossibility of being trained as one.
Charming, witty and a pleasure to read
- Marghanita Laski, Country Life
Anyone who has ever ventured out on a bungaloid limb with his heart in his boots to teach will appreciate the authenticity of Mr Blishen s touching and nerve-racking account; readers who enjoy an inquisitive, undeceived and celebratory prose style will delight in a subtle fiction - Kit Wright, New Statesman
Undiluted pleasure - Good Housekeeping
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