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Noisy at the Wrong Times
The uplifting story of a different kind of education - 'Hugely entertaining and inspiring' The Sunday Times
Author: Michael Volpe
Narrator: Michael Volpe
Unabridged: 9 hr 20 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: John Murray
Published: 09/17/2015
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Memoirs, Family & Relationships, Education
Synopsis
'Hugely entertaining and inspiring' The Sunday Times
The inspirational and colourful memoir of Michael Volpe, the general manager of Opera Holland Park. The son of Italian immigrants, he and his brothers were raised by his mother on a council estate in West London, before he attended Woolverstone Hall, a prestigious state boarding school designed to give bright inner city boys the opportunity of a public school education. Set against a backdrop of nuns, hit men, ice cream vans, rugby, gangsters, strict school masters and music, Noisy at the Wrong Times is the vivid, funny and often moving story of a boy who was given a chance - though whether he took it or not is another question...
(P)2015 John Murray Press
The inspirational and colourful memoir of Michael Volpe, the general manager of Opera Holland Park. The son of Italian immigrants, he and his brothers were raised by his mother on a council estate in West London, before he attended Woolverstone Hall, a prestigious state boarding school designed to give bright inner city boys the opportunity of a public school education. Set against a backdrop of nuns, hit men, ice cream vans, rugby, gangsters, strict school masters and music, Noisy at the Wrong Times is the vivid, funny and often moving story of a boy who was given a chance - though whether he took it or not is another question...
(P)2015 John Murray Press