Sad Little Men

If you want to understand the aura of entitlement and untouchability shrouding our governing class, look no further than Beard's witty, unsparingly sharp and deeply moving anatomy of the emotional culture of England's boarding schools

Josh Cohen

Engaging and readable, powerful and cogent. A vivid portrait of the political elite exposed for the vulnerable men/ children they are

Joy Schaverien, author of Boarding School Syndrome

A sensitive and incisive analysis of the British class system has no right to be as insanely readable and enjoyable as this book manages to be

Tom Holland, author of Dominion

Utterly compelling, top proper stuff. I loved it to bits. The energy of it! I really felt for them (all) by the end

Ian Marchant, Author of A Hero for High Times

Really good, clever, dazzling in its anger and the force of its argument

Nicola Shulman, Times Literary Supplement

Read this book

Alastair Campbell

[A] brilliant book... Beard's breathtaking personal account of the British habit of the British habit of institutionalising elite children captures all the nuances and subtleties of the boarder's undoing and its lasting legacy into adulthood

Nick Duffell, Therapy Today

Definitive and brilliantly expressed

Viv Groskop

Read this book

Alastair Campbell

Definitive and brilliantly expressed

Viv Groskop

Dazzling in its anger and the force of its argument

Times Literary Supplement

A sensitive and incisive analysis of the British class system...insanely readable

Tom Holland, author of Dominion

One of the finest polemics I have ever come across... Sad Little Men has been an eye-opener

Spectator

[A] brilliantly excoriating book

New Statesman