![]() In some ways this is a run-of-the-mill Chalet School book, featuring regular school events and conversations, and a rather tedious amount of detail in the end-of-term regatta. Margot strikes up a friendship with the unpredictable Emerence Hope, much to the dismay of the authorities, but is persuaded to work hard after being placed in a form much lower than that of her sisters. Not to Austria, yet - this is set in the late 1940s and the war is still too recent - but Switzerland, not far from where the finishing branch at Welsen was started a year or two previously.īride Bettany is still Head Girl, and the Maynard triplets return from Canada at last, stronger and more confident now they are twelve. Big changes are afoot in this story: the school is, at last, planning to return to the Euroepean continent. It follows directly on from ' Bride leads the Chalet School'. Depending on how you count them, this is around number 32 in the lengthy series - around half way through. ![]() I last read ' Changes for the Chalet School' in 2001. ![]() I managed to read the entire series during my teenage years, and again as an adult I now have the full set, and am slowly re-reading them. ![]() I've been a fan of Elinor M-Brent-Dyer's books since I first discovered some of her early Chalet School books (in hardback!) on my grandmother's shelves when I was perhaps nine or ten. ![]()
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