Simone at the Chalet School

To go with our Centenary Edition of The School at the Châlet, Amy Fletcher has written a special fill-in about the Chalet School’s first term, written from the point of view of Simone. Of the three girls who are the first pupils of the school, Simone is very much the outsider: she doesn’t know the other two, she is not English and her shyness holds her back. How she learns to get over her difficulties and begins to grow into a real Chalet School girl forms the story in this alternative version of the Chalet School’s first term. While EBD often writes from the perspective of Joey, and sometimes from that of Grizel, she rarely gives us Simone’s point of view—Amy Fletcher has taken the opportunity to show a different angle on the legendary first term, and in doing so fills in many details left unexplored in the original story.