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Hearts and Minds

By (author): Rosy Thornton
Published by: Headline Review
Publication date: 12/Jun/2008
Format: Paperback - 448 pages
ISBN-10: 0755333896
ISBN-13: 9780755333899
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> General & Literary Fiction

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With insight, humour and a great deal of affection, Rosy Thornton reveals the idiosyncrasies of life in a Cambridge college and the pitfalls of being a man in a woman's world. St Radegund's College, Cambridge, which admits only women students, breaks with one hundred and sixty years of tradition by appointing a man, former BBC executive James Rycarte, as its new Head of House. As Rycarte fights to win over the Fellowship in the face of opposition from a group of feminist dons, the Senior Tutor, Dr Martha Pearce, faces her own battles: an academic career in stagnation, a depressed teenage daughter and a marriage which may be foundering. Meanwhile, the college library is susbiding into the fen mud and the students are holding a competition to see who can 'get a snog off the Dean'. The question on everyone's lips is how long will Rycarte survive at St Radegunds without someone's help? In Rose Thornton's own words "The book is in the tradition of English 'campus' satires - about the political wranglings of a fictional Cambridge college. But it's a female twist on what has tended to be a very male tradition: it's about a women's college which appoints a male head of house to the opposition of a posse of the feminist dons. It's also got an angst-ridden mother-daughter relationship thrown in, with bags of maternal guilt, etc., and a minor romantic strand going on, too."

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While it's not easy being a woman in a man's world, James Rycarte has decided that the reverse is also true. Taking on the job of principal at an all-female ...

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