Full Description
Finding Our Way Home: Women's Accounts of Being Sent to Boarding School shares the personal stories of sixteen women, all of whom were sent away to board at an early age. Their accounts delve into the depths of long suppressed emotions and feelings, and the lifelong impact that the early separation from their families has had.
Much has been written about the impact of 'boarding school syndrome' on male boarders, but less about their female counterparts. This book is the first to explore the experience from a purely female perspective, and offers an intriguing insight into the world of boarding schools and the upbringing of girls born in the mid-to-late 20th century.
Finding Our Way Home is a book for everyone who ever attended boarding school, as well as psychotherapists and counsellors working with boarding school survivors.
Contents
Table of Contents
Foreword
Joy Schaverien
Introduction
Nikki Simpson
Chapter 1: On Becoming a Boarder
Louise Sinclair
Chapter 2: Skinny Dipping in the Rhine
Frances Den Hollander
Chapter 3: My Story
Natasha Wilson
Chapter 4: Being Sent, Then and Now
Caroline Giddens
Chapter 5: Finding My Way Home
Nikki Simpson
Chapter 6: Memories From My Formative Years
Marianne Simpson
Chapter 7: Give and Take
Alison Higgs
Chapter 8: The Story of a Little Girl Lost
Colette Knight
Chapter 9: Paradise Lost
Isobel Henderson
Chapter 10: Sometimes
Jo Trotter
Chapter 11: Boarding School Musings
Margot Oakenby
Chapter 12: Privileged Deprivation
Marcia Turner
Chapter 13: Coming in From the Cold
Susanna Hoare
Chapter 14: Severe Housemistress
Patricia Morris
Chapter 15: The Trunk
Margaret Laughton
Chapter 16: Whispering Walls
Elizabeth Routledge
Afterword
Jane Barclay
Afterword: A Psychotherapist's Reflections
Pippa Foster
Help and Support/More Information
Editor's Note and Acknowledgements
Nikki Simpson
