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The torment of mentoring spoilt rich kids

5 March 2022

9:00 AM

5 March 2022

9:00 AM

A Class of Their Own: Adventures in Tutoring the Super-Rich Matt Knott

Trapeze, pp.336, 16.99

For 20 years of my adult life, I moonlighted as a private tutor. After a full day in the office (at a literary job which paid me the price of a Mars Bar p.c.m.), I would traipse the streets, from Notting Hill mansion to cramped suburban flat and everywhere in between, leaving a trail of English comprehensions, Latin translations and Ancient Greek primers in my wake.

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