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I need a Chalet School fix

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Dilbertian · 15/12/2021 15:50

Please help:

Where can I download a Chalet School book? I'm astonished that I cannot find any as ebook.

(When you're under the weather, nothing quite hits the spot like a bit of EBD escapism.)

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Corbally · 19/12/2021 09:39

@MajorCarolDanvers

I would absolutely recommend: The Chalet Girls Grow Up: A Sequel to the Chalet School Series by MERRYN WILLIAMS

Obviously not EBD but I loved it.

It’s regarded with frank horror by a lot of CS fans, who think its kitchen-sink misery tainted the series. I thought it was kind of hilarious…

@Classica, the proper way to get married is for a masterful doctor to ‘decide what you mean to him’, be hailed as a ‘solid lump of comfort’ by you in some crisis though you’re just a Jolly Schoolgirl, and then for you to spend your life alternately sedated and pregnant.

SomethingNastyInTheBallPool · 19/12/2021 08:24

@StrychnineInTheSandwiches Thank you for the Beswitched recommendation! I downloaded it from the library and inhaled it in a couple of hours. Really, really good.

MajorCarolDanvers · 18/12/2021 18:05

I would absolutely recommend: The Chalet Girls Grow Up: A Sequel to the Chalet School Series by MERRYN WILLIAMS

Obviously not EBD but I loved it.

Classica · 18/12/2021 17:58

Grin Grin

I remember Elma! She was a bitch if memory serves, who received scandalous letters from that Stuart character. But of course, exploring ones burgeoning sexuality was the hallmark of a total cow. Much healthier to never notice or mention the male of the species until you're 19, when you're married off to your former doctor and start reproducing at an alarming rate.

Corbally · 18/12/2021 17:42

@Classica

Forgive me, Miss Brent-Dyer, for my vulgarity. I feel ashamed.
Are you Elma ‘Goes to Roadhouses Unchaperoned With a Man Named Stuart’ Conroy? The St Mildred’s Fast Girl, who plays bridge on Sunday?
ArblemarzipanTFruitcake · 18/12/2021 17:39

@Classica

We're just being silly. Online invitations for instant gratification aren't usually associated with wholesome boarding school tales, that's all!
Solid lumps of comfort ahoy!
Classica · 18/12/2021 17:31

We're just being silly. Online invitations for instant gratification aren't usually associated with wholesome boarding school tales, that's all!

headintheproverbial · 18/12/2021 17:25

What are you all talking about?

I feel as though I'm missing out on something significant!!

FelicityBeedle · 18/12/2021 17:23

@Classica
Am I a well read cam girl? Or do I moonlight as an eyepatch wearing sailor? Who knows Wink

EmpressaurusWitchDoesntBurn · 18/12/2021 17:21

Have a look round www.sallydennylibrary.co.uk/index.php for fanfic.

Classica · 18/12/2021 17:21

Forgive me, Miss Brent-Dyer, for my vulgarity. I feel ashamed.

Classica · 18/12/2021 17:20

@FelicityBeedle

Oh and instant gratification is available from inboxing me Grin
Is it porn, is it Joey Bettany and Co?

Who knows!

So often the two collide.

FelicityBeedle · 18/12/2021 17:16

Oh and instant gratification is available from inboxing me Grin

DinaofCloud9 · 18/12/2021 17:15

Girls Gone By website prints the original unabridged versions of the CS. I think it's £12 a book.

AuditAngel · 18/12/2021 17:14

I completed a full set of chalet school books this year, and managed to duplicate some. If anyone is interested in which I have spare, message me (but it might take me a couple of days to work out which ones are spare)

FelicityBeedle · 18/12/2021 17:09

I’m not Parker but if anyone is desperate for chalet school books PM me, I can help!

Corbally · 18/12/2021 17:06

@AgathaMystery

God I love the chalet school books. Excellent nonsense all round.
They are. The insufferable Robin singing Joey back from the jaws of death, everyone suspected of having TB and being subjected to fresh air, creamy milk and a trilingual education, but never actually developing it, weirdly sickly religious interludes, an obsession with cakes and curtseying etc. Fabulous.
AgathaMystery · 16/12/2021 21:04

God I love the chalet school books. Excellent nonsense all round.

ArblemarzipanTFruitcake · 16/12/2021 21:03

There was another one I read where the Marlows go to the Chalet School - it wasn't on AO though and I can't remember now where I found it. There was a brilliant scene where Nicola totally fails to do the 'I say, you don't mean Josephine M Bettany - she's my favourite author' routine and more in the same vein.

ArblemarzipanTFruitcake · 16/12/2021 20:59

@Dilbertian

I read an excellent fanfic combining Kingscote and Hogwarts. Laurie and Nic's first term at Hogwarts. It was called A Wand With Sixteen Strings.
I've read that, it was great. I haven't even read Harry Potter but I enjoyed it.
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Dilbertian · 16/12/2021 20:59

Crossed post! That's where I found it Grin

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Dilbertian · 16/12/2021 20:58

I read an excellent fanfic combining Kingscote and Hogwarts. Laurie and Nic's first term at Hogwarts. It was called A Wand With Sixteen Strings.

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ArblemarzipanTFruitcake · 16/12/2021 20:58

Another option is to have a browse for Chalet fan fic on Archive of our Own!

ArblemarzipanTFruitcake · 16/12/2021 20:56

The Trebizon books are on Kindle. I read them for the first time as an adult and to be honest, I wasn't particularly thrilled by them, but they do fit the bill as a light read.

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Dilbertian · 16/12/2021 20:51

@Harriet1216

Try Antonia Forest, the Marlow series. They're as far from the Chalet School as you can get, being packed with remarkably real characters.
But, you see, that's exactly why I need the total escapism of the Chalet's utterly improbable world.
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