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The Head Girl of St Bee’s: Alys Chatwyn, The Epworth Press

If Chatwyn had been happy to stick with ‘St Bee’s College’ – a school characterised as a hive, and its girls ‘bees’ ‘drones’ etc – that would be one thing. But ( Read more... )

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The next book I intend to (re)read is 'The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society' in preparation for watching the film adaptation, coming out next month, I believe. I didn't know about the film until I saw the trailer.

Crossposts: https://feather-ghyll.livejournal.com/155146.html

Mullion: Mabel Esther Allan. Hutchinson

My copy of this book features a mostly intact dustjacket featuring two girls and two boys in a motorboat with a castle on an island behind them. If I’d looked at it more carefully, or read the blurb – but I just saw Mabel Esther Allan’s name under a title I didn’t own, so why did I need to? - I wouldn’t have come to the story under the misapprehension that ( Read more... )

Crossposts: http://feather-ghyll.livejournal.com/99984.html

I got hold of a Chambers hardback copy of this book (a reprint) - I wasn't struck by anything additional that wasn't in the paperback edition, but I haven't compared page by page or anything. (ETA: My Armada paperback is a 'revised edition' which was first published in 1970. Still couldn't tell you how revised it is, though.)

In this book, ( Read more... )

Edited on 17.1.14.

Crossposts: http://feather-ghyll.livejournal.com/96307.html

Just Four Girls: Charles Herbert. The Leisure Library.

I don't think I've ever read a school story like this. ( Read more... )

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