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Discussion Questions
1. Who do you think are the real villains of this novel?
2. Did you sympathise at all with any of the characters?
3. Does Malcolm Davies deserve any sympathy?
4. In what ways does the novel achieve its comic effects?
5. Is the author too cynical/bitter in what he says about education?
6. Should there perhaps be greater focus on the school's pupils?
7. Are you bothered that there are so few female vopices in the novel?
8. Is the shift from multi-first person narrators to a third person narrator at the end a successful one?
(Questions courtesy of the author.)