Noisy at the Wrong Times

Michael Volpe

• 17 september 2015
• 9781473630697

Samenvatting:

One of The Sunday Times' 100 biographies to love The incredible story of a boy from a council estate, and the school that made him



'Hugely entertaining and inspiring' The Sunday Times

The inspirational and colourful memoir of Michael Volpe, the general manager of Opera Holland Park. The son of Italian immigrants, he and his brothers were raised by his mother on a council estate in West London, before he attended Woolverstone Hall, a prestigious state boarding school designed to give bright inner city boys the opportunity of a public school education. Set against a backdrop of nuns, hit men, ice cream vans, rugby, gangsters, strict school masters and music, Noisy at the Wrong Times is the vivid, funny and often moving story of a boy who was given a chance - though whether he took it or not is another question...

(P)2015 John Murray Press