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TITLE: WICKED!
AUTHOR: JILLY COOPER
CONDITION:
Hard Cover
The corners are folding a little bit
STORY: Two schools - both in rural Larkshire, but worlds apart...
At Bagley Hall, a wild but increasingly academic independent school crammed with the children of the famous, trouble is afoot. Hengist Brett-Taylor, Bagley's charismatic head, knows that the school will only be granted vast tax concessions if it benefits the local community. He therefore hatches a plan to share Bagley's splendid facilities with Larkminster Comprehensive - known locally as 'Larks'. He is aware that this will ensure frequent meetings with Janna Curtis, the young, feisty and highly attractive new head of Larks, who has been drafted in to save a fast-sinking school.
Janna faces a daunting task. Her pupils are out of control, her teachers bolshy, and Larks's prime site has made it the target for greedy developers. Despite her passionate disapproval of independent schools and the arrogant, utterly gorgeous Hengist, Janna will do anything to rescue her demoralized, cash-strapped school, so she agrees to the bonding.
Both her teachers and the Bagley parents are horrified, but for the pupils the scheme provides joyous opportunities for scandalous behaviour. Soon the Larks Lotharios are in hot pursuit of the luscious long-limbed Bagley Babes. A Welsh castle is trashed during a geography field trip and Romeo and Juliet ends with a Bagley love rat knocked into a flower bed. When Rupert Campbell- Black, an utterly unacademic Bagley parent, is tricked into sitting English GCSE, his outrage is equalled only by fury that his lovely wife Taggie has defiantly taken a job as school cook at Larks. Janna, meanwhile, finds herself fatally drawn to Hengist. As the story races from the traumas of Ofsted and GCSEs to high drama at the National Teaching Awards and a riotous Queen's visit, will our heroine emerge with her heart and her school intact?
Wicked! is also about the courage of desperately disadvantaged children thriving against the odds, and the heroic teachers who never give up on them. But as Posh meets Comp and old and young find love in the most unexpected places, you will laugh, cry and stay hooked until the very last page.
