The Chalet School

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There seem to be plenty of old Chalet School Threads, but I can't find a current one.

In the middle of a re read. I have just finished the Tyrolean and Herefordshire ones. I loved them!

I do remember the Swiss books not being quite of the same quality, so not sure whether to read them all.

Could anyone recommend the best Swiss books if I was to skim through?

She does mention sweets being on (or just off?) ration in Island or Carola Storms - one of the Island books anyway

In ‘Lavender,’ didn’t her aunt seek assurances that the school not trouble her niece with news of the war. Only to have Hilda gently explain that they didn’t want their girls to grow up as ‘spineless jellyfish!’

There's a lot about the war in Highland Twins - the air raid on the journey, one of their brothers being killed, Jack Maynard believed killed, and all the business about the Chart of Erisay.

It's more in the background in Gay, but it is the reason it's difficult to find substitutes for the absent mistresses.