To Sir, with Love
Publisher: Hern Books, Limited, Nick
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9781848423701
Subjects: Fiction, biographical; Teachers, fiction; London (england), fiction; Blacks, fiction
Description: "Ricky Braithwaite, an ex-RAF fighter pilot and Cambridge graduate, arrives in London in 1948. Despite his First Class degree in electronic engineering he is turned down for job after job in his chosen profession and discovers the reality of life as a black man in post-war England. Taking the only job he can get, Ricky begins his first teaching post, in a tough but progressive East End school. Supported by an enlightened headmaster, the determined teacher turns teenage rebelliousness into self-respect, contempt into consideration and hate into love, and on the way, Ricky himself learns that he has more in common with his students than he had realised."--Nick Hern website