Author: Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
Publisher: Girls Gone By
Date: 2009
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback
Series: Chalet School series, number 53
Description
Who was Adrienne Desmoines? She seemed to have no relations at all when Soeur Marie-Cecile rescued her from unhappy circumstances. Her parents were dead and, so far as she knew, they had not even had cousins. She was alone in the world. But Soeur Marie-Cecile, formerly Robin Humphries, applied to the Chalet School and her adopted sister, Joey Maynard. Joey gave Adrienne her scholarship and she went to the Chalet School. From sheer gratitude she worked hard but, unfortunately, the results of her work and her excellent brain brought her a bitter enemy. She found that even the happiness of her school life had flaws and it was not until an accident occurred, in which she and her rival were badly burnt, that understanding came between them. best of all, that same accident robbed her of her long pigtails, and the curls which grew afterwards helped to solve the greatest mystery of all - who was Adrienne?
The introductory material thus includes an article by Ann Mackie-Hunter on Robin, with particular reference to her vocation.
The book was only published once in hardback and once in Armada paperback, and is thus very rare and much requested.
