Chalet School - plot inconsistency bothering me

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I don't know why I suddenly thought of this but perhaps my first 3 consecutive glasses of postnatal wine have brought out my inner dullness.

There is a Chalet School book (Exploits?) where some of the girls bake apple pies and mistakenly use cloves of garlic instead of cloves.

Not believable and silly.

I think she went to secretarial college, but last heard of was engaged, supposedly she was about 19 at the time. The other girls were horrified she was getting married so young!

I used to loooove the Chalet School books.

Have any of you read The Chalet Girls Grow Up by Merryn Williams? Interesting take on it all....

The best thing about the Chalet School is the way that it's always bigger and better than all other school stories. I mean, everyone else helps capture a Nazi spy, but the CS has their very own sent all the way from Hitler to spy on them. And everyone else has missionary parents lost in darkest Africa. But in the CS the parents get lost in space.

AnarchyAunt, I read that, Jack Maynard taking his own life
Driven to it by Joey!
Mary Lou stealing Len's husband

Jeee was that Ruey Richardsons father that went off in a self built rocket ship?

The family were proper globe trotters too...Lady Russell in Canada, and Australia.

What???

oh yes, lots of shockers.....Margot more or less getting chucked out the order, and falling for a fallen priest......

And when they globe trot, they always leave miscellaneous children in various outreaches of the Empire. Mankyscotslass... you're right, it was Ruey Richardson. Which I'm pleased you told me, because I couldn't remember.

Can i hijack and ask if anyone remembers this book and what it might be called?

A young girl (orphan I think) has been living with her grandmother who has to go to hospital so she is sent to stay with distant relatives. Her grandmother had been bringing her up in a strict old-fashioned way so it is a real change for her to live with a family with young children like herself who are very "modern' in their ways. I think the father might have been an architect (iirc they had a silver Christmas tree at his insistence!). They buy her jeans and jumpers to wear instead of the old fashioned dresses she had and shock, horror, the children are allowed to eat fish and chips walking down the street!

Ring any bells with anyone? (Written in the early 70s I would guess...)

this is fab.. have my lorna hills and chalet schools in attic for dd ..only wish I'd kept my antonia forest ones -can see its going to be as expensive as replacing my lost ant and bee books.

and was it just me who felt cheated when joey suddenly went all coy/family type and married jack? And even at 13 I remember thinking her multiple births were somewhat unrealistic...

Grapefruitmoon. I know that book... It's called something like Come Back Tessa. Actually that's not right. But some ghost is trying to take her back to the past, and nearly manages it.

Hmmm I don't remember anything about a ghost, so not sure that is it...

poppy! I got my brother (30) an Ant and Bee book one birthday recently, it cost about 30 quid! I loved them. Ant and Bee Go Shopping I particularly remember. With Kind Dog.

Oh TotalChaos, Chalet School girls would never run off with a MAN. They'd run off to see a waterfall (Grizel) or to see a play or something. They didn't have any sexual feelings til the day they left school at which point they turned, rermarkably quickly, into wives and mothers-of-multiples (yet retaining their schoolgirlish figures and senses of humour despite having had 11 children - ).

You ae right, the only male contact was brothers or brothers friends, with whom you were allowed to be "matey". No fraternisation at all until you left school.
And they all seemed to marry into each others families or friends. No outside influences!

If you're trying to track down copies of Chalet School books (or Antonia Forest, Lorna Hill and some other children's authors of that ilk) try www.badgerbooks.co.uk

They have lots of recently reprinted titles published by Girls Gone By, including GGB books now out of print.

I adore the Chalet School series. I want to read more but they are (obviously) kept in the children's part of the library and I am too mean to buy a child's ticket.
I loved how the girls were so strong and fearless but what Fennel said is too true!

Whoever said about price of books... I had a paperback (ordinary one not 1st or anything ) & sold it on ebay to fund the new one from GGB and it sold for £56 and that was with new ones coming out!!!

When we were in Hay-on-Wye thsi year we went in the childrens bookshop and they had loads of CS books in hardback with djs etc and were all in locked glass cupboards as they wer £100+ I just drooled on the glass

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Wow! There are loads of us nutcases fans out there!

Who remembers how any Chalet girl who dared speak above a whisper was forced to write out that Shakespearean claptrap: ''Her voice was ever sweet, gentle and low - an excellent thing in a woman'' ? Did love them though. Mary Lou and the bending-knees - was that on the school trip to Interlaken? Or Oberhausen and the Passion Plays? Oh dear, getting muddled.

And Joey's life-saving hairwash: I remember she asked in German for heilige wasser instead of heisse wasser (or was it the other way round?) anyway, asked to be rinsed in holy, not hot, water.

Gosh, how we laughed.

That's where I first heard about the Passion Play, I though it sounded amazing. I would still like to see it.

Remember Joey had so much help though, always cooks and maids and the Coadjutor. All she had to do was write six bestselling books a year, churn out the multiple births, be a brick to her husband and solve all the School's problems - she never had to worry about apple pies or how to keep her house fresh, dainty and pretty.

Speaking of Joey's house - it was massive and I notice they never had to fret about how much it cost to heat! That'll be the marvellous effect of the porcelain stoves that warmed the room so throughly...

I loved these and can't believe this post has stayed at the top for a few days. If i order some, will they be crap now I'm a grown up and spoil my childhood memories....? I've been on a roll with dd and the Magic Faraway Tree.