The School at the Chalet (by Elinor M Brent-Dyer)

Having read - and very much enjoyed - the La Rochelle series by Elinor M Brent-Dyer over the past seven months or so, I decided it was time to reread, yet again, her better known (and much longer) Chalet School series.

I have just finished the first book, ‘The School at the Chalet’, which I last read ten years ago. It was first published in 1925, so is almost a hundred years old now, yet the characters seem timeless. The story is primarily about Madge Bettany, a teacher in her mid-twenties.

Madge and her twin b...