Please join me at 7pm British Summer Time (GMT + 1) tomorrow- Tuesday - for my live reading from @althorphouse of ‘A Very Private School’, my childhood memoir, recently published by @gallerybooks and @wmcollinsbooks

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I am slightly flabbergasted to be the #1 The Times and The Sunday Times non-fiction hardback best seller. Thank you to everyone who has kindly chosen to read my childhood memoir.

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I’m very much looking forward to being interviewed at Hatchards Piccadilly by Justine Picardie on A Very Private School - my childhood memoir that will, I am slightly stunned to hear, be the No. 1 nonfiction hardback bestseller this Sunday with The Times and The Sunday Times

This morning I was a guest of Richard Madeley & of Susannah Reid on Good Morning Britain - we had a chat about my new book, A Very Private School, with both hosts extremely sensitive to the more difficult subject matter in this, my childhood memoir.

Horrifying to hear of the physical abuse Richard

Magnolia Cottage Althorp in full bloom today.
The lack of frost has given us this wonderful display so far this year, I hope it continues.
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Review of A Very Private School in today’s Sunday Times: “…of all the accounts I have read of boarding-school misery, this one gets top marks for its searing frankness, framed in wistfully beautiful prose.” Too generous - but I will take it, with enormous gratitude!

Thrilled to see, today, in print, confirmation of A Very Private School’s place at no. 4 in the ⁦The Times and The Sunday Times⁩ nonfiction hardback list.

‘Thank you to all who have kindly chosen to read my memoir, A Very Private School, and turned it into a bestseller. I’m deeply grateful for all the kindness that people have shown since the book came out.’ Charles Spencer

A VERY PRIVATE SCHOOL by Charles Spencer offers a clear-eyed, firsthand account of a culture of cruelty at the boarding school Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated system.

'Powerful, unforgettable' Justin Picardie

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So grateful to see that A Very Private School is the no. 1 book on Amazon in the UK right now: so humbling to think that quite a few people are reading this most personal of tales.

It's been five years in the pipeline, but today, I am finally able to see my childhood memoir, A Very Private School, published in the UK. Thanks to William Collins Books and HarperCollinsUK for believing in this most heartfelt of books.
 
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It was hard sometimes not to let my voice quaver when reading some of the contents of my new memoir, A Very Private School, but overall it was very therapeutic to bring the story alive.

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Today is the publication day of my childhood memoir, A Very Private School in the US. Thank you, Gallery Books and Simon and Schuster, for all the support you have given to this, by far, my most personal work.

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A few thoughts on my new childhood memoir, A Very Private School, which I shared while recording the audio version of this book.
 
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Thanks to ⁦Lorraine⁩ for being such a sensitive interviewer on ⁦Lorraine⁩ this morning. Such a darned difficult subject to be interviewed on - anyway, she couldn’t have done it any better. The interview airs at 9.27am on ⁦ITV⁩ today. #averyprivateschool

‘I am deeply grateful to those who have read my childhood memoir A Very Private School in advance of its publication dates - 12 March in the USA and 14 March in the UK - and written down their take on this, by far the most personal of my 8 books.’ - Charles Spencer