![]() ![]() Where was I? How did I get here? I was on my own, and now I would have to survive.'Too Marvellous for Words! is the wonderfully evocative and entertaining memoir of life in an all-girls boarding school in Suffolk in the early 1960s. ![]() Suddenly I had this out-of-nowhere, waking up from a coma moment, as if I had been whisked away by a tornado or washed up by shipwreck on an unknown shore. We were Darrell and her chums at Malory Towers - except the school in front of me wasn't quite the picture I had imagined. We were all schoolgirls everywhere, past, present and future, real and imagined. I'd been living for this moment since I'd arrived at the school since before that. Midnight feasts in dorms, jolly japes with chums, pranks on mad teachers and no boys whatsoever: THE REAL MALORY TOWERS LIFE from award-winning writer, Julie Welch.'As we spilled from the train we could hear loud revving and smell exhaust fumes, and there in the forecourt was a coach waiting to drop us all off at our various houses. ![]()
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