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‘NOT ALL RUNAWAYS FLEE FROM PUSNISHMENT. SOME ESCAPE TO FIND THEMSELVES.
Reading, autumm 1954, an eleven year-old boy from Uruguay, is held in a police cell after fleeing -for the third time- from an English boarding school. He is not running from the strictness, a sense of not belonging, and the fear that this island will never truly be his home.
Yet fate will rech out to him in Goring-on-Yhames: a headmaster who knows how to ask forgiveness, a girl named Mary, and a school unlike any other -Elmcroft, a pioneering pilot project designed to transform public education across the UK, where defiance is slowly shaped into purpose.
Amid rolling hills, English rain, and the quiet banks of the Thames, Alex will discover an education that teaches him to listen and to imagine. Here his vocation as a writer will take root.
An ulikely friendship with Agatha Christie will bloom, and a first love will leave its mark upon him for ever.
From that grey boarding school, a new England will emerge -one that beats within the heart of a boy who learns that freedom is not won by running away, but by learning to understand.
ENGLAND 1954 IS A NOVEL OF FORMATION AND REDEMPTION. A JOURNEY FROM DECEIT TO TRUTH. FROM FEAR TO HOPE. -AND FROM THE LONELINESS OF ONE DISPLACED CHILD TO THE BIRTH OF A NEW VISION FOR EDUCATION.
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