Jo to the Rescue (by Elinor M Brent-Dyer)

In my meandering, gradual read-through of the lengthy Chalet School series by Elinor M Brent-Dyer (with a few extra fill-ins) I reached ‘Jo to the Rescue’. As a young teenager this wasn’t one of my favourites, but when I re-read it as an adult, it shot up in my estimation, and I now count it as one of my top five. However, although it’s ten years since I last read it, I almost skipped it this time as I had made the mistake of reading the fill-in ‘A Chalet School Headmistress’ directly after ‘Ga...