Antonia Forest fans

She gives me the creeps as well; powerfully reminiscent of the form teacher I had at 13 who thought I needed putting in my place. I'd come top in the end of year exams that year, but she decided (as was her perfect right) to give the form prize to the girl who'd improved the most (who was a friend of mine), and took me aside for a little private screed, saying that my success was the result of my evident social privilege (I'm not sure where she got that idea, since by the standards of the school though not of the wider world, rather the reverse was the case) and she'd given the prize where it was genuinely deserved. Very embarrassing, and completely ruined the pleasure I'd taken in my friend getting the prize...but I did immediately think Redmond!