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posted by [identity profile] anef.livejournal.com at 06:10pm on 09/02/2008
I loved the Chalet School books until I went to real secondary school and discovered it was nothing like them. OK, I wasn't expecting the adventures, but the sort of genial fun was also entirely absent. Can't re-read them now but I did read quite recently "The Chalet Girls Grow Up" which is a blackly comic (though at the same time sympathetic) story of what happened to some of the girls after. The author thoroughly debunks the author's excessive fondness for some of the characters. I got it out of the Rock Road library so it may still be available.

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posted by [identity profile] hilarityallen.livejournal.com at 06:22pm on 09/02/2008
WEll, I have a copy I can lend out. Also most of the Chalet School books, which have survived my contact with real boarding schools.
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posted by [identity profile] desperance.livejournal.com at 10:55pm on 09/02/2008
Tell me more about "The Chalet Girls Grow Up"? I know nothing of this... (But I have absolutely all of the originals, which also survived my contact with the real thing...)
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posted by [identity profile] hilarityallen.livejournal.com at 11:26pm on 09/02/2008
I found it rather depressing. But then, I wasn't particularly happy when I read it.
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posted by (anonymous) at 06:24am on 10/02/2008
It's by Merryn Williams, and if you look it up on Amazon you will see some very polarised reviews. In fact reading the reviews will probably give you quite a good idea of what it's like. I found it very funny, but lots of people didn't.
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posted by [identity profile] anef.livejournal.com at 06:26am on 10/02/2008
Sorry, that was me.
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posted by [identity profile] desperance.livejournal.com at 09:45am on 10/02/2008
Thank you!
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