Cee's review
Peggy of the Chalet School
by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
Cee's review
Peggy of the Chalet School by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
Cee's review
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Peggy Bettany (Dick Bettany's - Madge's brother - daughter; it does get confusing keeping track of Madge's, Dick's and Jo's clans of children) gets made head girl of the Chalet School, who are still situated on the island of the Welsh coast. Shocks all round! One senior is terribly jealous and this is the cause of one of the term's dramas.
We're also introduced to Polly and Lala Winterton, new girls, in a way that made me suppose they were going to spend the book trying to learn how to be proper Chalet girls, but they really fade into the background once they're at school.
Madge and family are overseas in Canada (except for Sybil and... is it David? I forget, one of the boys who's away at a separate school), and while over Madge pops out a pair of twin boys. As usual, no-one was aware that she was pregnant. I can't figure out why it was fine for Brent-Dyer to have her characters having so many children (and therefore heaps of sex) and yet any mention of pregnancy seems to be...more
We're also introduced to Polly and Lala Winterton, new girls, in a way that made me suppose they were going to spend the book trying to learn how to be proper Chalet girls, but they really fade into the background once they're at school.
Madge and family are overseas in Canada (except for Sybil and... is it David? I forget, one of the boys who's away at a separate school), and while over Madge pops out a pair of twin boys. As usual, no-one was aware that she was pregnant. I can't figure out why it was fine for Brent-Dyer to have her characters having so many children (and therefore heaps of sex) and yet any mention of pregnancy seems to be...more
