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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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!

This discussion is sponsored by Egmont and will end 1 August

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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i loved them. Great stories with great characters x

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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!