At school circa 1995 everyone in my English class was lent this book. We had to read it for homework then do some work about it in class.
No one I went to school with who I've asked remembers it and I can't find anything on the internet. I'm starting to wonder if I imagined it.
It's about a boy in a boarding school sixth form. He has a sort of boy-crush on one of his male teachers. He also has a girlfriend at home, who dumps him because he's never around.
There's a girl in his school who likes him. I think she's called Iris and is described as frog-like. (I'm sure I remember my teacher saying she didn't find froggy Iris believable.)
There's some kind of scandal at the school involving the teacher the boy has a crush on. I remember one of the tasks we did in school was writing a newspaper report about the scandal.
There was a foreword or afterword in the book where the author wrote something about children's books having to find a reason for the children to be away from their parents, and using a boarding school setting was one way of doing it, but boarding schools were currently out of fashion in children's literature.
The book seemed to have a contemporary feel when I read it in the middle nineties so I think it was probably fairly new then, but obviously could be older than I think.
Any ideas anyone?
Thanks!