Captain Corelli’s Mandolin author says the school, where he boarded from the age of eight, delivered routine violence and abuse to its pupils
Louis de Bernières, the bestselling author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, has written of the “extreme physical and mental cruelty” he experienced while at prep school in Kent in the 1960s.
In a letter to the Times on Wednesday, as schools around England face a wave of accusations of sexual abuse, bullying and harassment, De Bernières reveals details of his time at Grenham House, which was closed in 1984.
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