Title: A Genius at the Chalet School
Author: Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
Publisher: Girls Gone By
Date: 2007
Pages: 284
Format: Paperback
Series: Chalet School number 35
Description
Nina Rutherford is orphaned by the death of her father in the waters of Lake Maggiore, where they had proposed to winter. Her father’s cousin and her own guardian, Sir Guy Rutherford, comes to take her to England and send her to an English School. But Nina, a musical genius, has her own ideas and insists that she cannot go to any ordinary school.
On the way home, they fall in with the Chalet School, also going home. Nina makes friends with some lively members of the Fifth. As a result of this and what he learns of the school, Sir Guy decides to send his difficult young cousin to it. Thanks to the understanding of the staff and Joey Maynard – who, incidentally, delights everyone by having her fifth daughter at the end of term – Nina begins to realise that ordinary education is as important for her as her music, though that must always come first; and the book leaves her settling down as a happy Chalet School girl.
