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

I am very much liking re-reading the early Chalet School books by Elinor M Brent-Dyer. Over the weekend I read ‘Rivals of the Chalet School’, which is fifth in the series. I couldn’t remember much about it, as I last read it over 10 years ago, but I did recall that it involved the rival St Scholastika’s School opening up nearby.

Grizel has left school for university, and Mary Burnett is head girl. She’s fairly quiet and innocuous but seems to make an able head of the prefects. Joey Bettany ...