Monica Turns Up Trumps
Key Facts (Possible Spoilers)
Links with the Chalet School.
Monica, Vicki and Alixe go to the Chalet School as weekly borders after Miss Cundell retires. This occurs in THE CHALET SCHOOL GOES TO IT / CHALET SCHOOL AT WAR. Vicki is by now 17 entering 6th form and planning to become a doctor; Monica now almost 16 entering 5th form and planning on becoming a gym teacher, and Alixe almost 15 (there is no reference in the pb version).
In LAVENDER LAUGHS AT THE CHALET SCHOOL / LAVENDER LEIGH AT THE CHALET SCHOOL, Dr. Marilliar is the doctor who examines Lavender and recommends her to attend the Chalet School. At this time, Monica is Games Prefect and nearly 18, Alixe is almost 16, and Mollie ('Molly' in TRUMPS - another EBDism!) is 12 and in Lower 4th (having obviously sent to England like her siblings).
Others from 'Braemar House' go to the Chalet School after Miss Cundell's retirement, namely Myfanwy Tudor, Clare Danvers, Gwladys Evans, Jocelyn Redford and Ernestine Benedict.
'The Gables' - Monica's previous school - is also mentioned in Chalet School books with pupils coming from there.
Medbury, the location of TRUMPS, is approx. 14-18 miles from Howells Village, on the border of Wales (18 miles in CHALET SCHOOL GOES TO IT / CHALET SCHOOL AT WAR, 14 miles in LAVENDER - another EBDism!). The Chalet School has just left Guernsey at the time of this story.
The Marilliar's home is called 'Many Bushes' - the same name as Phoebe (Wychote) Peters' home when she met Joey and co. in JO TO THE RESCUE.
Of interest to EJO fans, a book mentioned in TRUMPS is "The Crisis in Camp Keema".
contributed by Sandra Fitzgerald, Australia __ working from a hardback edition