I need a Chalet School fix

I hope you have many coffees and cakes with lots and lots of fluffy cream on top. Do not, for any reason, speak to Frau Berlin or ask for your hair to be rinsed with Heiliges water.

Hopefully I can use my bell-like voice to call for help!

You’ll be ok unless you’re a fairytale princess in boating kit (in which case you snag a Baron) or just a jolly schoolgirl who regards doctors as just chums and shies away from ‘sentimental bosh’ until you have a narrow escape with some Nazis in a cave in which case you fire yourself into their arms calling them your ‘solid lump of comfort’, you total hussy. (Then you get married, start having multiple births every five minutes, and they start drugging you.)

The long-running Chalet School threads on here a few years back were hilarious.

I've just reread the first book as am going to that area for Easter. I'm just trying to see if we can stay at the Kron Prinz Karl hotel which still exists.

I will try not to inadvertently fall in love with a doctor or produce multiple births while there.

I didn't read these when I was younger, but have been steadily working my way through the Faded Page ones, aged 55 😁They are simultaneously hypnotic and horrific! There is no difficult girl that cannot be cured by the Chalet School, marriage to a doctor and pumping out hordes of babies to perpetuate the cycle.

Faded Page currently goes up to 32 in sequence (chalet school does it again) so I've run out now. Is the marvellous Dropbox mentioned on here still available, @Parker231? And if so what format are they? (I have an ereader, not a Kindle, so need epub or pdf.)

@BoffinMum, love your trip pics!

My copy of Bride Leads (Chambers hardback with the frontispiece showing the wrecked study, but no dust jacket) is missing pages 103-106 - obviously gathered /collected wrong. This means that for many years I have had to jump from Mary-Lou preparing to read a verse from scripture, to Anne complaining about the amount of prep they have to do with no way of knowing what else happened in classes, or how it advanced the Diana story.

Such satisfaction to know at long last what I missed.

yes yes, it's all very dull and repetitive and predictable but that's why I love it

I have just started re reading the first book. My goodness, it's bringing back memories!

Oooh, which bit is missing from your edition?

Thank you for the faded page link - at long last I can read the bit that my copy of Bride Leads lacks.

Thanks! I must have just caught up!

and yes, Joey in particular is insufferable. I don’t much like Jack either. He’s so … officious.

I don’t think I’ve read that one in about 20 years — is that the one where Peggy tells the prim girl she SHOULD wear powder and nice pink lipstick because people have to look at your face? And there’s someone who plays bridge on Sunday, and once went to a roadhouse with an unsuitable man who then wrote to her?

Fadedpage has now reached the Swiss era. The most recent one is Mary Lou, though I think there are one or two missing before that. We are getting to the time when both Joey and Mary Lou become insufferable.

https://www.fadedpage.com/csearch.php?author=Brent-Dyer,%20Elinor%20Mary

(And for anyone who enjoyed Biggles as a child, the Biggles books are also becoming available on faded page. And the Abbey books, as mentioned earlier in the thread.)

Jumping in to bump this thread! I started re-reading over the holidays, but came to a screeching halt after the book where the finishing branch opens (makeup! Ungentlemanly men!) Does anyone know where I can find library or pdf or kindle of the rest of the series? I’ve looked everywhere!

I do wish GGBP would publish kindle editions. Sigh.

thanks!

I discovered this thread way too late 😭I grew up reading the books in my school's library. Is it possible for me to get a link please?

If you like Chalet School or even Abbey Girls you might like The Convalescent Corpse by Nicola Slade (spotted a few EBD and EJO easter eggs).

Any chance I could be sent the kindle link as well? Thanks in advance! @Parker231

No, you can PM for free

@Parker231 does one have to be a paid up MN member to PM? For Chalet School books I would join!

If you pm me your email address I can send you the books

Me too please 📚 💕

I also stumbled upon this thread in hopes that I could find the books in ebook form. I had previously read most of the Chalet School books that were available on Archive.org and Faded Pages and was going through them again hoping there were more (thankfully there was). There were quite a few gaps, so I'd love to read the whole series all the way through!

I hold all the books in a kindle version. If you pm me your email address I’ll send them over!

Stumbled on this thread and hoping anyone could please share the kindle link with me as well! I’ve missed this series 💙

Absolutely! I sat over my last breakfast this morning reading the Gillian fill in (untouched until now and not really inspiring me) as this thread made me think I should make the effort to signal to any other hidden Chalet fans staying: it’s now covered in chocolate cake.

We’ve just booked our return though so maybe next time!

Doubleraspberry, shame we didn’t see each other there! We could have had drinkies in the Seealm!