As a child I read all of the Enid Blyton books. But one of my favourite series of books was the Mallory Towers, school series. ST Clares ran a close second! Mallory Towers is a girls boarding school, set in the picturesque backdrop of the cornish coast. The main character is a girl called Darrel Rivers, her friend Sally Hope and a lot of other colorful characters, Alicia, the brainy kid, who doesn't have to work at anything, and can still play the fool, with some of her amazing jokes and pranks (usually played on the french mistress, known as mamzelle). As with E Blytons genre, there is the staid but awe inspiring headmistress, jolly fat matron, ready to dish out huge spoonfulls of revolting medicine if any girl should pretend to be ill. The older head girls of the school, who have the younger ones to perform duties and tasks for them. There is always one spoilt girl, who has never been to boarding school before, usually with a spoilt mother to match! In this instance its Gwendoline Mary. I found these books again at a local junk sale, and brought them all, and digested them all within a few days. I might now be 29 but, reading them again still brings back childhood memories. Of how I longed to go to boarding school, and dreams of midnight feasts, and lacrosse, and bathing in a rock pool. Enid Blyton may now get slated for being politically incorrect, but these stories are just that.. stories, that do still enchant. I would have no hesitations in letting my children (when i have them) read these stories, they certainly did me no harm. I would recommend any one who read these in their childhood to pick them up again and have another read, it really does take you back.
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