A Lesson in Love

The fourth Little Village School novel. Love is in the air in the little village of Barton-in-the-Dale. Anyone can see that Ashley Underwood and Emmet O'Malley are made for each other—they just have to admit it to themselves. But as the saying goes, the course of true love never did run smooth. While romance blossoms on one side of the village, an angry young boy struggles to believe in love. But when tragedy strikes, he learns that comfort and care can come from the most unexpected of places. Meanwhile, head teacher Elisabeth Stirling faces a new challenge for the start of the school year when an eccentric teacher joins the staff, and there's also a worrying case of potential negligence to answer. In the village a puritanical new vicar stirs up trouble. Mixed in with the drama there's plenty of gossip, laughter, friendship, and love in Barton-in-the-Dale.

Gervase Phinn is a teacher, freelance lecturer, author, poet, educational consultant, and visiting professor of education. For 14 years he taught in a range of schools, acted as General Adviser for Language Development, and later became a school inspector—time that has provided much source material for his books. He has received the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Leicester and the University of Hull, and the Honorary Degree of Doctor from the University of Sheffield. Phinn is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Honorary Fellow of York St John's University and Leeds Trinity University.