John Bartholomew

Ordinary Lunchtime John Bartholomew

If he cuts my ear off, will my brains pour out? Six terrified children and their teacher are trapped in their classroom with an angry knife wielding intruder. What started out as ordinary school lunchtime turned into a nightmare that they could never forget. Each of them displays a different sort of courage as the police are powerless at the other side of the playground. The story is related by ten voices: in the classroom the six children, their teacher and the intruder; across the playground, the head of the school, the Assistant Chief Constable, and the local home beat policemen who happened to be on the premises when the siege started.