Did you understand when you read The Potenters that, What was going on? I mean, were you familiar with the genre of the public school story or know what a public school was?

Absolutely.

Because of my mum read all the British children classics to me when I was small.

And she also had an experience at a similar school in Wales.

So I did have some idea of what the reality could be like.

both socially and practically.

And then again, I was bathed in this culture as having been something that I could not aspire to because I was born in Canada in a completely different culture.

So,