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Posted on June 19, 2020November 8, 2020

Guernsey Before the Chalet School

As a teenager I found Elinor Brent-Dyer's La Rochelle series quite difficult to get into. They seemed to me to be much more dense than…

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Posted on June 9, 2020

The School at the Chalet by Elinor M Brent-Dyer

Higher and higher they climbed, now and then stopping at a tiny wayside station, till at last...before them, dark, beautiful, and clear as a mirror,…

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Posted on May 24, 2020

My Lockdown Books: Sixty Nine

You might think I've chosen another book by Elinor Brent-Dyer to include in this lockdown selection but I haven't - although I understand why you…

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Posted on April 12, 2020April 12, 2020

My Lockdown Books: Seven

The first books I seriously set about collecting were the Chalet School books by Elinor M Brent-Dyer.  I acquired the first one (actually the seventeenth…

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