St. Radegund’s College, Cambridge, breaks with 160 years of tradition to appoint a man, former BBC executive James Rycarte, to be its principal – to the virulent opposition of some of the feminist dons. Meanwhile, Senior Tutor Martha Pearce has problems of her own: a student rent strike, a marriage in stagnation and a depressed teenaged daughter. Political back-stabbing, gender wars and the sanctity of the Oxbridge admissions system: a campus novel for the 21st century.
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St. Radegund’s College, Cambridge, breaks with 160 years of tradition to appoint a man, former BBC executive James Rycarte, to be its principal – to the virulent opposition of some of the feminist dons. Meanwhile, Senior Tutor Martha Pearce has problems of her own: a student rent strike, a marriage in stagnation and a depressed teenaged daughter. Political back-stabbing, gender wars and the sanctity of the Oxbridge admissions system: a campus novel for the 21st century.
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