The brutal truth

Michael Henderson’s representation of my work in his reviews of Nicky Campbell’s Radio 4 series on boarding schools is wilfully inaccurate [RADIO, APRIL]. “Renton has spent much of his adult life reheating tales of his blighted schooldays” is not true. I first wrote about boarding schools and the culture of tolerated neglect and abuse therein in 2014, when I was 53. Since then I have published two books on entirely different subjects. My 2017 book Stiff Upper Lip was not about “brutes with canes...