Wicked: Rutshire Chronicles, Book 8 Audiobook (Free)

Two academic institutions – both in leafy Larkshire, but worlds aside. The matchless Jilly Cooper becomes her brilliant pen towards the explosive globe of education.

At Bagley Hall, a notoriously outrageous, but increasingly academics, independent, crammed with the children of the popular, difficulty is afoot. The ambitious and fatally attractive headmaster, Hengist Brett-Taylor, hatches an idea to share the services of his school with Larkminster Extensive – known locally, as ‘Larks’. His reasons for doing so are about Wicked: Rutshire Chronicles, Reserve 8 purely monetary, but he’s encouraged by the opportunities the scheme gives him for frequent meetings with Janna Curtis, the dynamic new mind of Larks, who has been drafted in to save what is a fast-sinking school from closure. Janna is certainly young, fairly, enthusiastic and greatly fearless – and she’ll perform anything to rescue her demoralised, run-down and cash-strapped college. Neither parents nor personnel of either school are too keen on this radical move, although some can see the possible economic advantages. For the college students, however, it offers great opportunities to get up to a lot more mayhem than normal.

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