rachelmanija | (Reply)

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My favourite thing about boarding school stories is character interaction/development, plus the possibility of totally bizarre plot developments. I love Antonia Forest’s Kingscote for the former, but I have a soft spot for books with the latter - St Brenda’s Headache (Anne Saunders) has a girl who has Taken the Blame for another character and is punished/misjudged for it, plus bonus amnesia, robbery and blackmail, and there’s a boys boarding school that I like a lot (unfortunately it’s called Feversham’s Fag and thus joins a number of fantasy novels with rather busty covers in the category of books I can’t read on public transport). I also read one called Hoax of a Lifetime, which added drugging, kidnapping, threatening characters with a red hot poker and actually beating them with cricket bats (!) to liven up the plot.