“’cause we’re young and we’re reckless / we’ll take this way too far / it’ll leave you breathless”

Taking stock thirty books into the Chalet School series, I am not gruntled by how for a full fifteen-and-a-half volumes the school is not actually in a chalet, and one volume* isn’t remotely a school story. I allow some leniency given they had to escape Austria just ahead of the Gestapo, shortly after Anschluss, and reconstitute elsewhere during the War, but it took till 1953 for the author to return the main campus to the Alps (near Interlaken instead of Innsbruck). The delay was probably a post-war economic necessity, but the series name still feels forced.


* Jo to the Rescue. The author loves grown-up Jo rather more than I do.

ETA: Annnd the thirty-first book looks to also not be a school story. Hmph.

---L.

Subject quote from Blank Space, Taylor Swift.