A conversation about happiness
Subtitle: a story of a lost childhood
By: Mikey Cuddihy
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Ulverscroft
Publisher: Thorpe
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781444823615
Subjects: Biography; School children; Alternative schools; Summerhill School
Description: When Mikey Cuddihy is orphaned at the age of nine, her life explodes. She is sent from New York to board at the experimental Summerhill School in Suffolk, and abandoned there. The setting is apparently idyllic: lessons are optional, pupils make the rules, and the late sixties are in full swing. But with this total freedom comes danger ... Caught in the unravelling social experiment of sixties and seventies Britain, Mikey must navigate this strange world of permissiveness and neglect, and forge an identity almost in defiance of it.
Notes: Adult.