The Ice Cream Terrorist

An Orphan Girl's Fight For Family, Freedom... And A Knickerbocker-Glory

The Ice Cream Terrorist
Mike Leaver
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NZ$ 36.99
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NZ$ 29.59
Trade Paperback
h216 x 138mm - 200pg
28 Nov 2021 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9781913913687
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Two forcibly segregated, separate sex, and rurally isolated schools are inhabited by malevolent masters, petrified pupils, more-kindly matrons, and a handful of true heroes - including The Ice Cream Terrorist. This titanic tale of redemption shows how pupils and staff - blighted by dysfunctional, post-war, orphanage schools in Britain - escape and reform the brutal system. Join their journey through school suffering, then on a road trip to a coastal idyll full of kindness, safety, and real-life skills, and eventually different lives. Free from oppression with more enlightened care, they create progressive futures. Mike Leaver' s epic saga spans two decades, England and Wales, and many major themes of 20th century life - such as homelessness, rebelliousness, lesbian love, and loyalty. Mike is really experienced at escaping from State boarding school, and so aspects of his personal life feature - and are sometimes exaggerated - in the travails and adventures of his larger-than-life, fictional pupils!
Mike Leaver is a semi-retired handyman aged 68. He lives in a converted, static, 10-ton truck - with no electricity, mains water or central heating - on a small-town business park in Snowdonia and writes books for pleasure. He also wrote his first novel Nork from Nowhere - and two forthcoming autobiographical memoirs - largely on a laptop by candlelight in his truck. Like Alan Bennett' s London-based The Lady In The Van, Mike has become a well-known character around his adopted home of Porthmadog.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781913913687
Published: 28 Nov 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: The Book Guild
Publisher: The Book Guild
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Pages: 200

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