The Heart of the Dales

If only this series never ended!......more

This - the fifth instalment in the Dales series - reached the same quality as the first three, after the slightly slow-going fourth book. It had a gossipy quality to it, as though sitting down to talk with some friends. It was extremely easy reading. The biggest positive for me was the high quality o......more

Another brilliant story from the School Inspector Gervase Phinn, this made me laugh out loud with some of the children's observations and brought years to the eyes with some of the sentimental and sad tales, a child who had been in care becoming the target for bullies because he was 'different ' and......more

I loved this update about life as a school inspector in Yorkshire - with so e laugh out loud moments at the expressions of many if the children, and Connie the redoubtable caretaker at the School Development Centre. Gervase is now the proud father of a son and is struggling to balance everything as......more