Another brilliant read by Jenny Colgan, a feel good book based in a Cornwall boarding school. Jenny does an excellent job at setting the scene and the characters have so much personality. A great read and would recommend.

Always love this author's books.
Great reads , one day reads .
Good bits of everything but not too mushy!
Laughs fun romance heartache
It's all there .
Thank you

This book hit me with a wave of nostalgia. When I was younger I devoured boarding school books, reading them in obsessive waves of wonderment struck with the absolute blast the girls seemed to have. Trying frightfully not to compare the books to my own boarding school experience - which was rather dire in comparison. I was incredibly excited when I heard about this book; apparently there are things you never truly grow out of, who knew?! After 10 years, I was ready for my fix and boy did this book deliver.

I’ve always favoured Jenny Colgan’s books, and this book was no different. It follows Maggie, one of the school’s teachers who is new, different, and NORTHERN - in a school in Cornwall, the absolute horror! It also follows the lives of a group of girls who are students at the school too.

I read this in a day. I couldn’t put it down and I honestly feel for the people who had to wait for the sequel. It was hard enough waiting until I could pop to a bookshop and buy one. This book was adorable.

I loved Malory Towers and St Clares when I was growing up and loved Jenny's take on the boarding school saga.

Reading the book took me back to my youth and I will definitely be reading more from this series.

What a fun book to read!! Whether you went to 'Boarding School, an 'All Girls School' or any school for that matter, it will remind you of your school days I'm sure, as it did remind me so much of my school days!! I couldn't put it down, but had to of course!! You get completely immersed into all the characters, places, and the their individual stories!!!! Brilliantly written!!

Maggie is a Glaswegian who has just been employed as a teacher at a Cornish boarding school. I really really really wanted this book to be Mallory Towers for adults, it could have been, it should have been. But it wasn’t. I love Jenny colgan books and have read them all. But this just didn’t do it for me. But because I love the idea I will read more in the series in the future

Agree with the Mallory Towers for grown ups similarities of other reviewers. This book is easy to pick up and enjoy!

Class and its successor, Rules, were written by the very well known Jenny Colgan, disguised as Jane Beaton. Only nobody had heard of Jane Beaton so most people, me included, neither knew about them nor read them. As a result the books have now been re-released under Jenny’s name and will hopefully draw a much wider readership.

I loved Jenny/Jane’s introduction - I also loved boarding school books as a child, and no, I never knew what lacrosse was either. (Has anyone ever played it in real life?) The book itself is enormous fun, incorporating many staples of the genre - new girls who don’t want to be there, a French mistress who seems to speak both languages simultaneously (though Claire is more glamorous than I recall any Mam’zelle ever being), tricks, runaways and so on - but aimed at nostalgic grown-ups rather than children, and with a far more modern slant. (To be honest I would imagine the vast majority of boarding school books from ye olden days are now read by nostalgic grown-ups anyway - I found a Malory Towers one on a charity shelf recently and got very excited.)

Both new English teacher Maggie Adair and new girl Simone Pribetich are initially, at least, fish out of water in the privileged environment of Downey House, a girls’ boarding school in Cornwall. Maggie, fresh from teaching at the same Glasgow comprehensive she previously attended; and scholarship girl Simone, who neither looks nor sounds like the girls she is now expected to mix with. Fliss on the other hand has the “right” background but has no desire to be sent away to school and wants out as soon as possible.

There’s also a dash of romance for Maggie in the tall thin shape of a David-Tennant-a-like (just me?) English teacher from the neighbouring boys’ school. He’s called David McDonald, which does just happen to be DT’s real name.

Anyway it’s all hugely entertaining and I immediately hopped off to Amazon to buy the second in the series.... hopefully all six will be forthcoming in time.

This is a nice story, easy to read, although it took me a while to really get into it. However, once I did I enjoyed seeing how relationships built and how people changed as they learnt about each other.

Maggie is an inner city teacher who takes a post in rural Cornwall in an all-girls boarding school. The characters are well written and I did like Maggie especially. The girls and other teachers all get to know each other over the course of the year, attitudes change and friendships are formed.

As some people have commented it is a little Enid Blyton in style and maybe because of that I didn’t love it, I have to admit I was never an Enid Blyton fan. However, it makes a very enjoyable read and I will read the others that follow.

Described as Mallory Towers for grownups, this book is a light hearted read. I absolutely loved MT and this book is reminiscent- but I didn’t love the children as much as I did in the originals. The teachers were a little caricatured - apart from Maggie and the wonderful headmistress Veronica

Despite all this, I immediately downloaded the next book in the series and have preordered the next two!

4* A fun and lighthearted read, probably best for those who loved MT!!