Monica Edwards! books

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Having seen threads on here devoted to the Chalet School, I feel I will be understood when I say that I love Monica Edwards' books even though I am nearly 64 years old. Most of all, I love the depiction of happy, harmonious family life because mine was anything but. I had half a dozen of the books already and the remainder came to the forefront of my mind recently. I thought of those that I had lost and not been able to track down the last time I tried (some time ago).

Recently I posted about my mother deciding that I was "too old" for them any more, and throwing them away. It had taken me ages to track down some of them and I was bitterly upset and extremely angry. It made me feel that I didn't have any right to own anything or to make any kind of decision about my own life.

This week I went on to Amazon and found that the majority of the books were now available at fairly reasonable prices ( I hadn't known about girls gone by publishers before). So I ordered the bloody lot except for one which was eye-wateringly expensive and I now have a nice row of Monica Edwards books on my bookcase. (I have started reading Punchbowl Midnight). It is great to know that nobody is going to be coming into my home shouting the odds and chucking my belongings away. (I do read books other than Monica Edwards'!)

Witchend. I may have misread your post. What did you mean set in the same place?

I love these books, and still have them all! I wanted to name one of my daughters Tamzin but my husband didn't like it.. we have been to Rye Harbour to to see the Vicarage, pub etc too. Storm Ahead was one of my favourites!

Sorry for spamming. I want to be able to edit. I can spell ‘sail’ and use punctuation etc. I just got a little excited about one of my favourite subjects, that I never get to talk about, and went a bit silly.

Such happy memories , Monica Edwards , Joanna Cannon , KM Payton , Joanna , Christine and Diana Pullein Thompson et all
Loved them to read , l loved having a big stash of books ready for the holidays although my mum would often root me out and say I should be making my own adventures rather than reading someone else's she didn't really mind as it was a good foundation to being a bookworm

Monica Edwards Tamsin books are set in Rye Harbour, Malcolm Saville's Lone Pine have ones set in Rye. (Gay Dolphin, Elusive Grasshopper, Treasure at Amorys, Rye Royal).
They have some places that they both use with different names (eg The Gay Dolphin is in reality the Mermaid, which appears as the place Tamsin beds down with after she's swum Cascade to get the doctor in Storm Ahead.)

I may have spent a few holidays nearby dragging the family around to squeaks of "That's Tamsin's vicarage" and "Look at the Martello Tower" etc.) Ds has appreciated that. The rest don't count.

I was one of the founder members of the ME society. I was sad when it stopped. I am though a member of the MS society, although I've never been to a meet up.

I have about 70 of the MS books, I think he wrote 89. I have a soft spot for Strangers at Snowfell (2nd in the Jillies series) as it was the first non-Lone Pine I owned.

Ah yes. I was thinking of the actual Lone Pine, which was in Shropshire of course. Have you noticed that he seems to be a bit of a fan of redheads.

One of my favourite bits in a Westling based book was when Jim kept covering the sign stopping people parking on the shingle.

I’ve just been googling something and discovered her society is still going so I don’t know what happened when they took my money years ago and then claimed they were stopping.

Thought I have loads of Saville books I’m so much more of a fan of Monica Edwards. She’s my second favourite author after Elinor Lyon. All of them are my comfort. I have books I’ve never read and plan to but always end up going back to the ones I love.

Somehow managed to miss a whole paragraph of your post about the society. It seems very similar in style, suspect it’s maybe one of the others you did it with and they’ve restarted it. I still have my magazines somewhere.

I may have to look at the MS society. Wonder where the meet ups are. I could possibly manage a Shropshire one as my parents live near Montgomery.

Yes, he has loads of red-heads. Jenny was my favourite.
Penny always irritated me though. I suspect once she was away at college and meeting boys other than Jon he's be dropped like a hot stone.

Monica Edwards was the reason I got into book collecting so I will always have a soft spot for her.

Jim covering the sign is the hoodwinks I think. I could see the glint in ds' eyes as he pondered the local possibilities!

Meet ups vary between Saville places. So lots in Shropshire, a fair number in Rye and then others in other places he used.

Oh, the ME society I think grew out of the ashes of the first one as irritated people who had paid joined together. I think I had a quite impassioned email on the subject, but it was about when we were moving house and I didn't get any further.
The first person that set it up I think was also in the MS society, so I don't know what actually went on.