The Other Side of the Dale (Abridged ed)

Gervase Phinn is offered the post of County Inspector of Schools in North Yorkshire.

As he reveals in this warm and wonderfully humorous account, his first year was quite an educational experience.

He learns to appreciate the countryside and meets some larger than life characters, from lords, farmers, teachers, priests and caretakers to a host of endearing and disarming children who know exactly how to speak their mind, often in surprising - and very entertaining - ways!