The Revenge of Miss Rhoda Buckleshott

Eleanor Berry's fourteenth book humorously examines a mad upper class school
mistress's fall from grace. Rhoda Buckleshott is sacked from her school for
teaching her pupils to write prosaic, antiquated English. The word "yes" is not
permitted, only the words "I feel bound to reply in the affirmative". A sick basin
is referred to as an "appropriate precautionary receptacle".
The book wittily describes Rhoda Buckleshott's escalating acts of revenge
against the headmistress, some funny, others wickedly and chillingly unpleasant.

 

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