I flew through this book.
Could some people find the Katherine Mary/Mary Katherine portion a bit unbelievable? Maybe, but I find it well within the realm of possibility. ( )

This is 24th in the original Chalet School series for teenagers. I roughly remembered the plot... a likeable girl, Katharine Gordon, joins the school but finds several inconsistencies. I had forgotten the details - that her name is not recorded quite correctly, for instance, and that two trunks arrive rather than one. She puts it all down to her scatty Aunt Luce who is an 'artistic' type, and settles down quickly.

The core of the plot relies on an extremely unlikely coincidence, but I didn't worry about it. It's a well-written book, for the genre, and even the school parts are not too run-of-the-mill, although I admit to skipping rapidly through the inevitable end-of-term pageant at the end.

I very much like re-reading my teenage favourites, when I want something light, and I liked this one very much. Recommended if you like mid-20th century school stories.

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