Class - Jane Beaton

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Title: Class: Welcome to the Little School by the Sea (Maggie Adair #1)
Author: Jenny Colgan as Jane Beaton
Genre: Chick-lit
Rating: 3/5
# pages: 336
Date read: December, 2022

It's about love lives . . .
Maggie has been dating Stan for years - safe, comfortable and about as exciting as soggy toast. Can their relationship survive? Especially when Maggie meets David McDonald, her opposite number at the boys' boarding school over the hill. Every single girl in the school has a crush on him, but not Maggie . . . yet.

It's about school lives . . .
Two girls. Same form. Simone Kardashian has won a scholarship and is determined to make her parents proud. Fliss Prosser is furious at being so far from home and her friends. As Simone tries desperately to fit in, Fliss tries desperately to get out.

It's about private lives . . .
Veronica Deveral knows how to manage a school. Routine and discipline are fundamental to her role. But Veronica has a secret that could ruin her career . . .


This was sold to me as "Malory Towers, but for grown-ups", and while I can definitely see the similarities, unfortunately, it just didn't have the same charm, so I haven't quite decided if I want to continue on with the series or not.

I think my main problem was that though the book introduced several different points of view along the way, at the end of the day it was one of the teachers who came across as the main character - and apparently teaching at a boarding school isn't as much fun to read about, as actually attending one? That's my theory anyway. Especially since Maggie seriously let down some of her students, which got frustrating to read about.

At the end of the day, I think Fliss was my favourite. She started out as a brat, but was certainly the one who improved the most along the course of the book.