A Memoir of Bullying and Boarding School
From Goodreads:
It should have been a time of acquiring confidence, building self-respect, and independence, of fostering a connection with the natural world through long hikes…
A gripping, compulsively readable memoir of bullying at an elite country boarding school.
Bad Behaviour by Rebecca StarfordMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
From a male perspective, it was a somewhat confusing tale and a little bit all over the place emotionally though I suspect that is exactly what the author intended. The omnipresent wish of a young woman to be liked or loved by the other players – adult and child – was a little foreign to me or possibly something I have forgotten about my own childhood. Maybe I was fortunate and got on pretty well with most and walked away cleanly from others. I suspect there are elements of gender involved but it is difficult to assess with a sample of one.
The writing is very proficient and the scene setting and characterizations are evocative and clearly very personal.
While not a book I would have chosen to read outside of an academic course it was an interesting insight into the complexity of a mind (not necessarily female) but one worthy of understanding and appreciating. Maybe mothers and daughters should read it and then discuss.
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