Title: The Gates of Bannerdale
Author: Geoffrey Trease
Publisher: Girls Gone By
Date: 2007
Pages: 221
Format: Paperback
Series: Bannerdale book five
Description
It has always been Bill Melbury’s ambition to get to Oxford and he knows that his only chance of doing so is to win a scholarship. Penny is determined to get to Oxford too – because she always wants to go where Bill goes.
His visit to the university to sit the exam, the attraction of the city, the tension of waiting for the result – back home in the quiet Lakeland village – all are absorbingly told. The action moves to and fro between Lakeland and Oxford, the authentic Oxford, in which the coffee-bar and the duffle-coat have their place with the cap and gown, creeper-grown quadrangle and panelled Common Room. The affair of the College silver, and the relationship between Bill and Penny, lead to suspense and mystery, comic situation and romance.
