A Genius At The Chalet School
(paperback)
Synopsis:
Nina Rutherford's comfortable world comes to an abrupt end when her father is drowned. Her cousin, Sir Guy Rutherford, comes from England to collect the newly orphaned 15 year old, and is perplexed at what to do with his new charge. Nina has a talent for music that is touched by genius and is in other respects also a difficult child: she is missing her father badly, she has never known the company of other girls, she has never been to school ...
A chance meeting on the train back through Europe with some jolly girls from the Chalet School in Switzerland gives both Nina and her guardian some room for hope on the last point. After Nina fails to settle down at the Rutherford's home in England, plans are made for Nina to go to the Chalet School.
Right from the start, the authorities at the Chalet School show that they understand the needs of the talented musician and Nina also gradually learns how to live with other people and accommodate her single-mindedness over her music.
This is the spring term, so the girls at St Mildred's, the Chalet School's finishing branch, perform their usual pantomime. This time it is a riotous rendition of Beauty And The Beast, which has the whole audience in fits of laughter. Even Nina, normally so reticent, tells Mary-Lou how much she has enjoyed it and how glad she is now that she came to the Chalet School.
The story is continued in CHALET SCHOOL FETE
contributed by Christina Erskine, England __ working from a paperback edition
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