Title: Cut and Run
Description: When his wife of thirty years suddenly announces she is leaving him and going on a round-the-world trip, Simon Russell is stunned. But it makes him decide to change his own life completely. He takes on a job as head teacher of a failing school, arranges to sell the cottage he shared with his wife and moves over the Pennines to Leeds. The challenge of an imminent Ofsted inspection certainly takes his mind off his personal troubles, for there are staff that need contending with, as well as unruly pupils. But Simon is not the only one whose life has been turned upside down. His new neighbour, Tom, a journalist back from New York, is battling to beat his cocaine addiction, his hairdresser Miranda is trying to come to terms with becoming a single mother of three, and PE teacher Emma reacts to the end of her long affair with a married man by applying for the post of deputy head of Simon's new school. Cut and Run is the story of how the lives of these four damaged but positive people intersect, and the part they play in each other's eventual fate.
Subjects: England, fiction, Fiction, general, Life change events, Fiction, School principals