Antonia Forest

[ailbhe]

All the library system has is "Autumn Term" (written and set in 1948 or so) and "Attic Term" (the same characters, two years later, written and set in 1976 or so).

Well, that was confusing. Nonetheless, I'd like to read more; Amazon is unforthcoming. Does anyone happen to have the whole shebang at home? I think I'm going to ask the library for all their Chalet School books too; I'm not well enough to read Georgette Heyer or, in fact, any adult books I can think of. And I really, really can't read anything unhappy. Being snubbed by the Milk Monitor in the Upper Fifth is about all I can cope with.

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[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

GGBP reprints exist for Antonia Forest - eBay sellers mark the reprints and they're usually reasonably cheap. (Looking right this minute it doesn't look like there's a lot but The Ready-Made Family and Falconer's Lure are on there at not-too-scary prices.)

minniemoll sells on eBay and while the only thing she has listed at the moment is a 1st edition HB she might know where to find cheap Puffin editions.

[alison.hemuk.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)]

Too ill to read Georgette Heyer? Yikes. Don't have any AF, but will see if we have anything that might do.

[ai731.livejournal.com]

Recommendation: The Lady Grace Mysteries, with the author listed as Grace Cavendish. It's a very light but enjoyable young adult series about the Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth the First who runs around the castle solving mysteries and getting in trouble for climbing walls when she's meant to be doing embroidery.

[liadnan]

I have most of them. The school stories were in Puffin in living memory, the others are being done by GGB and Clanwilliam has those that have been done so far.
The settings of the novels range from the 1940s to the 1960s, while the characters age little. You get used to it.
Cf http://community.livejournal.com/trennels/profile

[megaleena.livejournal.com]

If you like, I could post a selection of CS to you? I have plenty so if there's any you desperately want that you can't get from the library let me know!

[sidheag.livejournal.com]

I can't help, but thank you for mentioning this because I didn't know there were more Forest/Marlow books than the three that used to be published in Puffin (which I don't have any more, I'm afraid, but remember fondly).