Biography

Review

We are drawn into the struggle for control of a Melbourne private school, identifying with the heroine, headmistress Joan Montgomery, barracking for her supporters even in their missteps, willing the plotters to fail, hoping for right to defeat might while suspecting that in the end the numbers will tell a different story. […]

Biography

The Vetting of Wisdom —What a tangled web of intrigue, power-play and political chicanery. Peter Wilkins

the book is much more than an account of the conflict between church and school and the consequences of essentially one man’s will to assert his power over others. The book depicts a struggle between noble ideals and self-interested ambition. […]