The English Teacher
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Storyline: The central character & narrator is Henry Barraclough, recently retired as Head of English at a British public school. Enraged at what he sees as his unfair treatment by the school, he uses seven leftover exercise books to tell his side of the story. It is a brutally honest account of an intensely sexual, secret love affair that destroys his career and potentially his life.
About the author: Mick Le Moignan studied English at Cambridge University and has written in almost every format. For Corroboree Films and ABC-TV, he produced documentaries about the contemporary life and culture of First Nations Australians. In the UK, he made 100+ programs for BBC-TV and was story and script editor on the long-running, popular drama series, Eastenders and The Bill. Moving back to academia, he worked with Stephen Hawking to secure funding for the Hawking Building at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge and returned to Australia in 2009 to fundraise for the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. The English Teacher is his first novel.