Lessons: Part 2

Maggie Adair #3B

by Jenny Colgan, Jane Beaton

***PART TWO OF A THREE-PART SERIAL***

The unmissable second instalment of Jenny Colgan's return to the Little School by the Sea - perfect for anyone who ever dreamed of going to boarding school!

After the scandals of the summer, life has settled down for Maggie Adair and the girls of Downey House. But Ismé, the new scholarship girl, is causing trouble.

Downey House is preparing for Christmas - the halls are decorated, the play is in rehearsal - but it doesn't seem to be the most wonderful time of the year. Will the school be able to pull together to celebrate the festive season?

Genres: Romance, Chick Lit

98 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 20, 2018

About the author

Jenny Colgan is the author of numerous bestselling novels, including 'The Little Shop of Happy Ever After' and 'Summer at the Little Beach Street Bakery', which are also published by Sphere.' Meet Me at the Cupcake Café' won the 2012 Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance and was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller, as was 'Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop of Dreams', which won the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2013.

For more about Jenny, visit her website and her Facebook page, or follow her on Twitter.

Jenny Colgan has also been published under the name Jenny T. Colgan.

Reviews

[Nicola Clough · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great read and full of Christmas and trouble at the boarding school and makes you laugh at times with great characters and a very quick read so well worth reading.

[Alison · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was hooked when I saw the blurb, like Malory Towers for grown-ups, and it really is.

Maggie Adair is a schoolteacher from a rough inner city comprehensive in Glasgow who swaps it all for a position at an exclusive girls' boarding school called Downey House in Cornwall.

The second book ended on a bit of a cliffhanger for Maggie and David, the English teacher from the boy's boarding school just over the hill from Downey House and book 3 starts with the fall out from those events.

I have no idea why I bought this in three parts when the book was available so I am just going to review the whole thing. Neither school is happy with what happened and David has been forced to leave, Maggie has been instructed not to contact David in any way if she wants to keep her job. Both of them face massive upheaval (which I totally won't spoil) and there is a new scholarship girl joining the school.

So if you wished that Enid Blyton had written books for adults then this lovely series could be the one for you.

[Char (lunarchar_) · Rating 4 out of 5]

(4.5). Read during The Reading Rush. Mental health & LGBTQ+ representation. I adore Colgans works and this series/book instalments - especially the Audio book versions

[Ash · Rating 5 out of 5]

Like with Part 1, this was a great quick read. Catching up with Maggie, David and the rest of the Downey House gang in the run up to Christmas with the girls now in Middle School Year 3. I really love the characters in this series, something Jenny is very good at is creating characters you can’t help but love and root for, and following the various trials and tribulations of the pupils and teachers at Downey House over the new school year. Looking forward to seeing what happens next in Part 3!

[Paula Nichols · Rating 5 out of 5]

Does this count as a book? It is part 2...but what a part 2! I wish my teaching career had been in a boarding school, but then I know I am not refined enough. Maggie's continued toils in the boarding school without David are still a treat to read, and I have part 3 ready for after my 'serious' book!

Jenny, you've not let me down yet!

[Theresa Derwin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Christmas Romance fun

The second part of ‘Lessons’ carries pretty much straight on from part one and we get to know the characters a bit better, encounter disasters along the way, and it stops on Christmas Eve just before part three will be resolved. Great fun

[Rosemary Kind · Rating 2 out of 5]

I got to the end and could only assume there was another in the series. Sadly, from reviews I was not the only one to draw that conclusion. Normally I like Jenny Colgan's books, but this is missing a satisfying ending and it misses it by a mile.

[MetLineReader · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyable but far too short!!

[Anna · Rating 5 out of 5]

A short read but most enjoyable. Looking forward to the next instalment in this series. Characters are well written and story is well paced.

[Patricia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Audoibook

[Rory · Rating 1 out of 5]

Even more boring than the first part.
But I’d already purchased all 3 parts.

This was just so dull. Nothing happens. The whole thing drags along. Terrible.

[Rachel Vroom · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not the best book by Colgan imho, but still a nice read.

[Karen Keane · Rating 3 out of 5]

It is as the blurb says ‘Mallory Towers for adults’, although I still prefer the original.

[Ruth Ngobi · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 Stars. Such a fun book to read