Sad Little Men

A sensitive and incisive analysis of the British class system has no right to be as insanely readable and enjoyable as this book manages to be Tom Holland, author of Dominion Engaging and readable, powerful and cogent. A vivid portrait of the political elite exposed for the vulnerable men/ children they are Joy Schaverien, author of Boarding School Syndrome Well written... everyone...should pick it up for the insights into how being "sent away" by their parents shaped the characters of our "wounded leaders" Clive Stafford Smith, Times Literary Supplement If you want to understand the aura of entitlement and untouchability shrouding our governing class, look no further than Beard's witty, unsparingly sharp and deeply moving anatomy of the emotional culture of England's boarding schools Josh Cohen