'The classroom was a mess of noise. Our relief teacher was Mr O'Brien, the notorious eighty-something-year-old talker. Dave Reily had baited him, asking him about his time in the war, and Mr O'Brien's control had unravelled like a knitted jumper snagged on a nail. The next forty minutes were doomed to sleeping, gossiping, thrown objects and yelling...'
(Publication abstract)