Noisy at the Wrong Times : The uplifting story of a different kind of education - 'Hugely entertaining and inspiring' The Sunday Times, Paperback / softback Book

Noisy at the Wrong Times : The uplifting story of a different kind of education - 'Hugely entertaining and inspiring' The Sunday Times Paperback / softback

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'Hugely entertaining and inspiring' The Sunday TimesOne of The Sunday Times' 100 biographies to loveThe inspirational and colourful memoir of Michael Volpe, the general manager of Opera Holland Park.

The son of Italian immigrants, he and his brothers were raised by his mother on a council estate in West London, before he attended Woolverstone Hall, a prestigious state boarding school designed to give bright inner city boys the opportunity of a public school education.

Set against a backdrop of nuns, hit men, ice cream vans, rugby, gangsters, strict school masters and music, Noisy at the Wrong Times is the vibrant, funny, inspiring story of a boy who was given a chance - though whether he took it or not is another question... AS SEEN ON BBC ARTS' HIP HOP 2 OPERA

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