Kathryn Ecclestone is a retired Professor of Education, a well-known author of books and journalism in that field, and an experienced public speaker. Her best-known work is The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education, published in 2007 and one of Routledge’s Classics in Education series. Inspired by living in Vera Brittain’s former Buxton ‘house of many comforts’, this is Kathryn’s first biography.