Search
Log in
  • Home

  • Categories

  • Audiobooks

  • E-books

  • For kids

  • Top lists

  • Help

  • Download app

  • Use campaign code

  • Redeem gift card

  • Try free now
  • Log in
  • Language

    🇳🇴 Norge

    • NO
    • EN

    🇧🇪 Belgique

    • FR
    • EN

    🇩🇰 Danmark

    • DK
    • EN

    🇩🇪 Deutschland

    • DE
    • EN

    🇪🇸 España

    • ES
    • EN

    🇫🇷 France

    • FR
    • EN

    🇳🇱 Nederland

    • NL
    • EN

    🇦🇹 Österreich

    • AT
    • EN

    🇨🇭 Schweiz

    • DE
    • EN

    🇫🇮 Suomi

    • FI
    • EN

    🇸🇪 Sverige

    • SE
    • EN
  1. Books
  2. Biographies
  3. Autobiographies

Read and listen for free for 14 days!

Cancel anytime

Try free now
4.5(19)

A Very Private School

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

A Times, Spectator and Waterstones Book of the Year

'Shocking and moving' Guardian

'Top marks for its searing frankness, framed in wistfully beautiful prose’ The Times

At eight years of age, Charles Spencer was sent away to one of England's most England's most exclusive boarding schools. Here he reveals the strange secrets of the school, and the culture of cruelty and abuse he experienced in his five years there as pupil.

Spencer reflects on the misery, hopelessness and abandonment he felt aged eight, viscerally describing the intense pain of homesickness and the vicious brutality of a boys' school in the 1970s. All these years later, Spencer's bafflement at the teachers' motivations to inflict such cruelty on young children in palpable. As is his fury that, even if somehow he had spoken up, he'd never have been believed.

Charles Spencer's book 'A Very Private School' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 11-03-2024.


Narrator:

  • Charles Spencer

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 8 h 26 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Biographies
  • Autobiographies
  • True stories
  • Heartbreaking stories
  • Nonfiction
  • Education and pedagogy
  • Society and Social Sciences
  • Society
  • Warfare
  • Social science

Others have also read

Skip the list
  1. Crypt : Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond

    Alice Roberts

    audiobookbook
  2. One Hundred Saturdays : Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World

    Michael Frank

    audiobookbook
  3. The Crinkle Crankle Wall : Our First Year in Andalusia

    Sabina Ostrowska

    audiobook
  4. The Tourist : What happens on tour stays on tour … until now!

    Phil Tufnell

    audiobook
  5. Penguin the Magpie : The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family

    Cameron Bloom, Bradley Trevor Greive

    audiobookbook
  6. The Unseen Truth : When Race Changed Sight in America

    Sarah Lewis

    audiobook
  7. Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont

    Robert Bilott

    audiobookbook
  8. Lara : The Untold Love Story That Inspired Doctor Zhivago

    Anna Pasternak

    audiobook
  9. The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest

    Ed Caesar

    audiobook
  10. The Last Giants

    Levison Wood

    audiobook
  11. The Language of Food : "Mouth-watering and sensuous, a real feast for the imagination" BRIDGET COLLINS

    Annabel Abbs

    audiobook
  12. Abraham : A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths

    Bruce Feiler

    audiobook

Help and contact


About us

  • Our story
  • Career
  • Press
  • Accessibility
  • Partner with us
  • Investor relations
  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Explore

  • Categories
  • Audiobooks
  • E-books
  • Magazines
  • For kids
  • Top lists

Popular categories

  • Crime
  • Biographies and reportage
  • Fiction
  • Feel-good and romance
  • Personal development
  • Children's books
  • True stories
  • Sleep and relaxation

Nextory

Copyright © 2025 Nextory AB

Privacy Policy · Terms ·
Excellent4.3 out of 5