Title: The Coming of Age of the Chalet School
Author: Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
Publisher: Girls Gone By
Date: 2008
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Series: Chalet School series, number 39
Description
Any coming-of-age is an important event, and the coming-of-age of the Chalet School is no exception to the rule. The present-day pupils look forward to a term full of thrills, and they get them. Not only to Old Girls (who are, many of them, almost legends by this time), turn up at Half Term when the great celebration takes place, but the school itself is enlarged by the arrival of some of the former pupils who were left at the branch at Carnbach on the Welsh coast when the main body moved to the Oberland.
News of former pupils pours in on all sides and during the Half Term the doings planned in commemoration are duly carried out. But there is more. Joey, still the school’s moving spirit, despite a family and her many books, escorts the prefects for a weekend at the Tiernsee, where the school began, and they are involved in a thoroughly Jo-like adventure.
The term winds up with the Annual Sale and the Sports, during which a character, much disliked when she was at the school, becomes an object of universal compassion, and some of the girls outdo themselves in wild gymnastics. Finally, the term ends with the Chalet School still going ahead.
