A Future Chalet School Girl
Key Facts (Possible Spoilers)
Locations:
The book is set in the Tiernsee, at the Maynard's holiday home in Austria.
The School is on the Gornetz Platz, in the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland.
Series Characters Whereabouts:
The Maynards: live next door to the school at Freudesheim although they are all at their summer home in this book
Tom Gay: is working at a settlement in Dockland, London
Robin Humphries: is a nun in Toronto
Daisy Rosomon: lives in Devonshire
Jo meets Irma von Rothenfels, now Irma Ancocksy, who lives in the original site of the Chalet School. Irma feels sure that Melanie must be related to Jeanne le Cadoulec, also an old girl.
Len follows Melanie when she disappears with Bruno, and the pair are nearly injured in a storm. Ruey reveals that her father is missing after he tried to fly into space, and Melanie's sympathy ends the feud that has occurred due to Melanie's jealousy.
Len appeals to Jo to ask Miss Annersley not to make her a sub-prefect, as she doesn't want responsibility yet and Con has an amusing mishap whilst visiting Irma. A further accident occurs in the minibus due to someone else's careless driving, but no-one is hurt. Jo finds out that three old girls are engaged and that Robin is being transferred to a convent in the South of France.
The book ends when Melanie is happy to discover she will be a Chalet School girl next term.
contributed by Jennifer Parr, England __ working from a hardback edition