Author: Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
Publisher: Girls Gone By
Date: 2010
Pages: 263
Format: Paperback
Series: Chalet School number 24
Description
An art-obsessed aunt as guardian may complicate matters, especially when it comes to choosing boarding-school, as Katharine Mary Gordon discovered when her Aunt Luce handed her over to the wrong Chalet School where Mary Katharine Gordon was expected, but did not turn up.
Not that Katharine minded, for the girls were friendly, the Staff keen, but reasonable, and what with tennis, Guides, a seashore camp and a water pageant, she enjoyed the school; and when the news came that her missing parents had escaped safely from Communist China, she had little else to ask of life.
Laura Hicks has written an introductory article, My School: Write or Wrong, which compares the similarities and differences between The Wrong Chalet School and The Right St John’s by Christine Chaundler. As Laura acknowledges, she is not the first person to write about this subject, but she draws some different conclusions.
There is also a short story at the end of the book, The Tree House by Helen Barber. Helen is well known to readers of GGBP books as the author of The Bettanys of Taverton High, and she has also contributed short stories to other Chalet School titles – The Chalet School Christmas Story Book, The Chalet Girls in Camp, The New Chalet School and The Coming of Age of the Chalet School.
