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…
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…
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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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…
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…
It was always going to be incredibly difficult to choose only one book by Elinor Brent-Dyer for this list. I almost chose The Chalet School…
Ages ago I wrote about Anne of the Island and said that it was one of my desert island books. I chose the books in…
I expect that some of you recognise the allusion in the title of my blog. It's to Lewis Carroll, of course, in Alice's Adventures in…