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Noisy At The Wrong Times

By
Adult •
Non-Fiction
Noisy At The Wrong Times
Publication date :
September 2015
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Hugely entertaining and inspiring' The Sunday Times

One of The Sunday Times' 100 biographies to love

The 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...