Review: "The .College was a world apart with its own rules and customs."
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 3, 2013
Our narrator and a boy now suspended from the Choir School are left over Christmas to stay with Mr. Ratcliffe ( a most unpromising name).  The narrator lives in England and attends a Cathedral school while his parents live in India as happened in 1915.  Still Christmas at school is less than welcome.  "Freedom is an unsatisfactory thing."Christmas Day opens with the realization that it can in fact lose its magic.  But by evening, ghost stories about the Cathedral and it's buildings are told.  The boys set out to find the truth.This story takes us flawlessly to the rarefied world of English College early in the 1900's.  The language evokes the world of young men set apart from their prior lives.  The plot is engaging and the dialogue is seamless.  The writing is intriguing from the outset and I think you will enjoy it.