One thing I love is AF's constant digs at how the establishment's insistence on rewarding good character, showing how it results in mediocrity (in netball and the play). Something Noel Streatfeild also excelled at - the most talented characters are never the most likeable (with the exception of Nicola).
I wonder in the Jews can't take part in the Nativity scene, if a conversation like this played out at South Hampsted High School. How much did AF feel excluded from Christian events.
I don't find the netball scenes drag, on the contrary I love them now and as a schoolgirl, who'd never shown any previous sporting prowess, they inspired me to become a rather marvellous Goal Attack, though I say so myself.
And I don't see Miranda's affiliation to Jan as a coming out. At that time "pashes" were par for the course in boarding schools. Like someone else, I also remembering harbouring feelings of awe for some of the older girls, though by the 1980s I knew better than to voice them. Miranda has just chosen a classy object for her affections.
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Date: 2014-08-30 03:43 pm (UTC)I wonder in the Jews can't take part in the Nativity scene, if a conversation like this played out at South Hampsted High School. How much did AF feel excluded from Christian events.
I don't find the netball scenes drag, on the contrary I love them now and as a schoolgirl, who'd never shown any previous sporting prowess, they inspired me to become a rather marvellous Goal Attack, though I say so myself.
And I don't see Miranda's affiliation to Jan as a coming out. At that time "pashes" were par for the course in boarding schools. Like someone else, I also remembering harbouring feelings of awe for some of the older girls, though by the 1980s I knew better than to voice them. Miranda has just chosen a classy object for her affections.