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Did you love boarding school books? If so tell us why for chance to win a tennis-themed prize worth over £100 incl Trebizon books + tennis garden set

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SorchaMumsnet · 01/07/2016 10:33

To celebrate the release of The Tennis Term at Trebizon, we're offering you a chance to win a set of the classic Trebizon series by Anne Digby and a great way to play tennis in the garden.

This delightful series follows the adventures of Rebecca and her friends through their time at Trebizon boarding school and the ups and downs of friendship. In the latest book, The Tennis Term at Trebizon, Rebecca has been picked for the tennis team, and Trebizon has high hopes of winning the cup. But then there’s a hoax phone call, and a fake fire alarm, and Rebecca finds herself under suspicion. If Rebecca and her friends can’t solve the mystery, there will be serious consequences...

“As warm and comforting as a cup of cocoa, the Trebizon books are a real treat” – Katherine Woodfine, author of The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow

Did you love boarding school books? If so tell us why for a chance to win this fab tennis-themed prize worth over £100: a set of SEVEN Trebizon books including The Tennis Term at Trebizon PLUS a tennis garden set!

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Did you love boarding school books? If so tell us why for chance to win a tennis-themed prize worth over £100 incl Trebizon books + tennis garden set
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SorchaMumsnet · 02/08/2016 17:29

This competition is now closed and the winner... is JammieDodgem! Congratulations! Thanks for all your thoughts - I loved Trebizon and the others too. So much so I definitely wished that I would be packed off to boarding school, if only for those midnight feasts!

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Pimmpom · 29/07/2016 16:34

Absolutely loved Malory Towers and my daughter loves reading them now. Not sure what it is about boarding school but I think that for anyone that hasn't experienced it, it seems so exciting!

APocketfulOfStars · 29/07/2016 15:53

Trebizon was a wonderful series! I loved boarding school books as they took me away to a whole new world, where, regardless of what 'bad' things happened, everything came through in the end. Friendships were great, and now, looking back, they remind me a bit of living on my Uni campus. The relationships that everyone had were solid.

mumsnit · 29/07/2016 15:45

I was obsessed with the Mallory Towers, St Clares and the Chalet School books Blush

For me it was escapism as I had a really horrible time at school myself and just wanted to be somewhere else most of the time!!

My daughter is just getting into the Mallory Towers books now and its strange reading them again so many years later.

kennythekangaroo · 29/07/2016 12:49

I loved the Blyton school stories and the chalet school books. I used to scour jumble sales for chalet school books in the 80s.

I liked the historical differences of girls growing up 50+ years before me in a different country. I was very interested in WW2 so the build up to it in Chalet school in Exile was a gave me a different view on it.

TiggersAngel7774 · 29/07/2016 12:46

Yes when i was growing up loved Twins at St Clare's and Mallory Towers was like whole different world. Obviously more currently Harry Potter something so mysterious and magical about boarding schools , midnight munchies etc

Dessallara · 29/07/2016 09:34

Oh, yes! Always loved them, they were always very interesting!

Bellroyd · 29/07/2016 04:46

Yes, it was great for all of us to read the same books and then be able to discuss them

katieskatie82 · 28/07/2016 23:41

i loved them. Great stories with great characters x

Theimpossiblegirl · 28/07/2016 23:02

I always dreamt of attending Mallory Towers or the Chalet School as a child. Now I think I'd prefer Hogwarts.
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backinschool · 28/07/2016 22:28

I loved Malory Towers and St Claires to the extent that I begged my mum to send me to boarding school. When she refused my brother and I put my mattress in his room to make it into a dorm and tried to make lacrosse sticks out of hockey sticks and my dad's garden netting.

Pretenna · 28/07/2016 22:00

I loved the Trebizon series, although I never did finish it! I don't actually remember reading any other boarding school books/series.

sarsar123 · 28/07/2016 21:42

Don't really remember them being my favourite. Prefer books with more adventures

aesops · 28/07/2016 19:13

Love to read about Billy Bunter at Greyfriars School when I was little :-)

rollonthesummer · 28/07/2016 19:12

I absolutely loved Malory towers, St Clare's and Trebizon! Never could get into the Chalet School though.

I read a story a couple of years ago set in a modern girls' boarding school from the point of view of the teacher which I really enjoyed-can't remember who it was by or what it was called though-wonder if the author wrote any more?!

Jocelynne123 · 28/07/2016 19:05

I loved them. The Malory Towers books were my favourite. It sounded so much fun to be in boarding school xx

natalielara · 28/07/2016 18:01

OH yes always loved boarding school books, used to imagine being rich and going to boarding school and what sort of mates I would have etc etc. We live round the corner from a very famous boarding school and we've been there a few times, I always imagined going to Roedean :)

emily13 · 28/07/2016 15:55

Yes I read them all when I was young. I ended up going to a fairly posh school, it was partly boarding but I was a day student, and I hated it. It put me off all those books!

jamielmdjs · 28/07/2016 14:29

It's a great setting for a story - particularly when mischief ensues and the children plot an escape or adventure away from the confines of the school.

Jenerate · 28/07/2016 13:01

Absolutely loved them, yes. I wanted to go to one like the Chalet school, try all of the different sports, speak different languages, and of course have midnight feasts!

crapfatbanana · 27/07/2016 23:28

I absolutely loved boarding school stories. Special memories of the joy they brought me from age 10-13. A million light years away from my own school experience. My own 10 year old daughter is just discovering these kinds of books. I'm jealous!

chrissie4 · 27/07/2016 20:54

I loved Mallory Towers and St Clare's still have some book on my bookshelf

avery64 · 27/07/2016 16:48

As a child growing up in the rather austere post war years I couldn't get enough of the Dimsie books by Dorita Fairlie Bruce. There was no spare cash to buy them other than as my birthday or Christmas present (in the days when you only got one!!!!) I got so excited to find one I hadn't read in the public library on a Saturday morning but so sad to give it back the next week. I still have the ones that were gifts. My daughter loved them in the 1970s and she has bought several for my grandaughter who also loves them too. Pure escapism that we all need from time to time :)

bayliss6 · 27/07/2016 12:15

Yes I loved reading boarding school books when I was younger, Mallory Towers especially & now my daughter's love them too

chilledoutmummy · 27/07/2016 08:29

I loved boarding school stories because I was desperate for tuck boxes and midnight feasts, I love these new editions of Trebizon would be fab to share them with my girls 😊