Enid Blyton

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Tom mentions reading this book aloud to his elder daughter Katie, who attended a local state school. She loved the boarding school stories so much that she burst into tears when they finished the last novel, illustrating the powerful hold school stories have on children who have no connection to that world.

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Mentioned alongside The Twins at St Clare's as an example of girls' boarding school stories, referenced when discussing the tradition of girls' school fiction.