# Hearts and Minds

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- Book: [Hearts and Minds](https://www.bookquiver.com/rosy-thornton/hearts-and-minds) ([Hearts and Minds.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/rosy-thornton/hearts-and-minds.md))
- Authors: [Rosy Thornton](https://www.bookquiver.com/rosy-thornton)
- Publisher: headline_review
- ISBN: 978-07-5533-389-9
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2008-06-12
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

St Radegund's College, Cambridge, which admits only women students, breaks with one hundred and sixty years of tradition by appointing a man, former BBC executive James Rycarte, as its new Head of House. As Rycarte fights to win over the Fellowship in the face of opposition from a group of feminist dons, the Senior Tutor, Dr Martha Pearce, faces her own battles: an academic career in stagnation, a depressed teenage daughter and a marriage which may be foundering. Meanwhile, the college library is susbiding into the fen mud and the students are holding a competition to see who can 'get a snog off the Dean'. The question on everyone's lips is how long will Rycarte survive at St Radegunds without someone's help?