Jul 28, 2026 · 32 min · 11 segments
It's got all the ingredients of a good Chalet School book - but there's something about the way they're combined, that I really don't like! My thoughts will probably crystallize properly in about 6…
It's hard to pick a favourite out of EBD's collected works and even harder to pick a favourite Chalet School book.
Lots of readers will say, I like the Tyrolean books best, but I can't even do that, because I have immense fondness for the ones set on St. Briarville's and enjoy many of the later books set in Switzerland.
But there is one Chalet School book which I really don't like very much at all.
It comes towards the end of the series, and when Armada were issuing the full set, they skipped this one and then came back to it, which suggests they didn't much like it either.
I probably only re-read my Armada copy twice, the first time during the winter that I re-read all the summer books, and the second time when I did a full series re-read about ten years ago.
It's hard to pick a favourite out of EBD's collected works and even harder to pick a favourite Chalet School book.
Lots of readers will say, I like the Tyrolean books best, but I can't even do that, because I have immense fondness for the ones set on St. Briarville's and enjoy many of the later books set in Switzerland.
But there is one Chalet School book which I really don't like very much at all.
It comes towards the end of the series, and when Armada were issuing the full set, they skipped this one and then came back to it, which suggests they didn't much like it either.
I probably only re-read my Armada copy twice, the first time during the winter that I re-read all the summer books, and the second time when I did a full series re-read about ten years ago.
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