BEND OVER your chair,” she instructed.
Remembering how Madame always seemed able to make it sting more than most of the other mistresses, even though she never raised the cane any higher, I did as directed. With my back to the rest of the class and gripping the flat, latticed seat in readiness, I looked down knowing it’d be virtually impossible to sit there through the rest of the lesson…
Set in a strict Girls’ Boarding School during the mid-1960s, you can almost hear the sound of chalk squeaking against the blackboard and the swish of the mistresses’ canes! Now in the Fifth Form and just sixteen, Angela and her friends giggle and painfully wriggle through the last week of term before the Easter hols. Caroline first mentioned it at lunchtime as a joke, but Barbara Nicholls decided to ask Miss Robertson whether it had ever happened before. Angela is faced with a terrible dilemma… should she attempt the ‘School Record’?