TV’s Malory Towers is a riot of midnight feasts. But the reality was a mix of cruelty and cocktails
Midnight feasts, dormitory japes, the unbridled joy of a full tuck box. What could be more wholesome and fun than life at a girls’ boarding school, as depicted in the BBC’s adaption of Malory Towers, which started this week? But does Enid Blyton’s classic really capture the essence of these institutions? Here, our female writers … Read more