<p><b>Escape to the country with Gervase Phinn''s heartwarming tales of life as a school inspector in Yorkshire</b><br><b><br>''Gervase Phinn''s memoirs have made him a hero in school staff-rooms'' </b><i>Daily Telegraph</i><br><br>His colourful cast of characters have become firm favourites: the mostly mad staff at County Hall, as well as the children themselves, who find ways of embarrassing the school inspectors with innocent ease.<br><br>In <i>The Heart of the Dales</i>, we reconvene with Christine Bentley, head teacher of Winnery Nook School and now Gervase''s wife and mother of their son, the well-named Mrs Savage and not forgetting the Queen of Clean - Connie.<br><br><b>Gervase Phinn has an extraordinary talent to entertain, and the latest instalment to the Dale Series is heart-warming, wry and will make you laugh out loud.</b></p>