Ysenda Maxtone Graham

My prep school scarred me for life

‘A part of me died at school’, Charles Spencer writes in his shockingly stark account of sadism and sexual abuse at Maidwell Hall, Northamptonshire, in the 1970s

The eight-year-old Charles Spencer before heading off to Maidwell Hall. [courtesy of Charles Spencer]

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