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#1: Chalet School mention in The Herald (Glasgow) Author: Mona, Location: Hertfordshire

Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 5:47 pm
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I don't have the publication date, as my mother for some reason tore that bit of the page off before sending it to me, and I've had no luck finding the article online. This is taken from a article where several writers were asked which other author's books they would like to write a sequel to.

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I'd want to resurrect the Chalet School books by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer. i read them all as a child, and The Chalet School in Exile is one of those books you always go back to, especially when you have the flu and you need to read something comforting. I liked the serial quality of them; that you could follow the girls through their careers in school. And, growing up in Kirkcaldy in the 1960s, the Chalet School seemed so exotic. I can still remember my parents collapsing in giggles when I said I wanted to go there. I hold the Chalet School responsible for my decision to go to Oxford. I'd keep the main cast of characters too.

Val McDermid

#2: Author: Róisín, Location: Ireland

Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:20 pm
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Strange - if she still reads the books you would think she would be aware of the CBB/ FOCS/ NCC, but if that were the case, then she would be aware of fillers, which she clearly isn't. Confused

#3: Author: Liane, Location: Manchester

Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:42 pm
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Maybe if she has all the books, or all the books she wants, she wouldn't be looking in to it and therfore not know?

#4: Author: Mona, Location: Hertfordshire

Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:43 pm
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I only became aware of the CBB very recently, and although I got a copy of Visitors when Collins published it, it was the only fill in I knew about.
It was only when I started trying to complete my collection and replace paperbacks with hardbacks, in the past year or so, that I started noticing a lot of titles I didn't recognise and investigated.

#5: Author: Elbee, Location: Surrey

Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:46 pm
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I've just googled her as it said she was a writer herself, and she has a website and is contactable, assuming it's the same person! Maybe she needs an invite to join the cbb!

#6: Author: Cath V-P, Location: Newcastle NSW

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 4:20 am
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She mentions the CS books in one of her novels - I think it's Place of Execution.

#7: Author: lizarfau, Location: Melbourne

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 4:52 am
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Val has said on many occasions in interviews and on her website that she's a fan of the Chalet School books. She mentions the Chalet School in A Place of Execution and in one of her Kate Branigan novels. She was on Desert Island Discs several years ago and named Exile as one of the books she'd take to a desert island.

Elbee, Val is a best-selling crime writer - author of the Tony Hill books, which are currently televised under the name Wire in the Blood (which is the title of the first Tony Hill novel). She's also the author of the Kate Branigan and Lindsay Gordon series, as well as a number of excellent standalones.

I don't know what her collection is like, but she does know Ju Gosling of Bettany Press, so I'm sure she's aware of a certain amount of contemporary CS activity. But she's a pretty busy person - writing, involvement with the TV series, extensive author tours - and also has a child aged about 7, so I doubt she spends a whole lot of time searching online. Laughing

#8: Author: Mia, Location: London

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 4:08 pm
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I wonder if she may lurk... Hello Val if you do! Laughing

#9: Author: keren, Location: Israel

Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 9:49 am
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Well, maybe it's worth dropping her a line telling her about the CBB and the fillers in.
Maybe she can even write one!

#10: Author: champagnedrinker,

Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 11:30 am
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keren wrote:

Well, maybe it's worth dropping her a line telling her about the CBB and the fillers in.
Maybe she can even write one!

So, do you think she'll have a CS character as villain, victim or detective?

On a vaguely related note, has anyone else read Kate Atkinson's "One Good Turn"? She describes one character (the detective I think) as "Ex-Chalet School Head Girl".

#11: Author: lizarfau, Location: Melbourne

Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 12:21 am
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I just found the following interview with Val (in the Guardian in September this year), in which she mentions the CS (on the second page):

http://books.guardian.co.uk/whyiwrite/story/0,,2174126,00.html

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