Promising Author:Jane Bailey Eve Swanbrook is the new young art teacher at a boys’ boarding school. Kieron Oakey and his friend Willy are competing to lose their virginity by the end of the summer term, but when Kieron’s interest becomes centred on Miss Swanbrook, he seems to be out of the running. With the help of a wayward neighbour and an atheistic priest, Ev... more »e attempts to meet the challenge of a very male English institution. But while the school is congratulating itself on going mixed (it has a few girls in the sixth form to ward off financial disaster) both masters and pupils remain bewildered by the opposite sex. Then lust turns to love, and as mysteries unravel in this flagging public school, nothing is quite as it seems, where the familiar seems odd and the odd strangely familiar.« less