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A review by curlypip
Black Teacher by Beryl Gilroy
3.0
I came across this book after seeing it listed in a Guardian newspaper article about the most overlooked black writers, and this was Bernadine Evaristo’s choice.
Beryl Gilroy sounds like an amazing woman, a trailblazer in being one of the first black head teachers in the UK, and a wonderfully compassionate and understanding human being. I loved the phonetic dialogue of conversations with her students.
It’s a solid three stars rather than 4 though, because sometimes I felt she went off on such a tangent about so many peripheral characters that I felt lost and confused …
Beryl Gilroy sounds like an amazing woman, a trailblazer in being one of the first black head teachers in the UK, and a wonderfully compassionate and understanding human being. I loved the phonetic dialogue of conversations with her students.
It’s a solid three stars rather than 4 though, because sometimes I felt she went off on such a tangent about so many peripheral characters that I felt lost and confused …