Have just had a completely fantastic idea for a novel...

Alas, because I am not sure that I am willing to write it as complete tosh*, can anyone (Chalet readers out there?) recommend any non-fiction works on real British girls' boarding schools on the continent in the inter-war period?

*I may have to reconsider this, if it proves the only way it can work, but at first thought, I think it might also have a chance of Karen Blixen not-too-precise reality.**

**I adore Karen Blixen's stories. Alas, that I can only ever play on my own the game "tell how a famous story would work if it had been written by Karen Blixen". E.g. Hamlet, which ends:

'There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

The black-clad man gazed out over Øresund to the lights of Helsingborg, dancing like white-clad maidens over the water.

'Ah,' he said, 'but Hamlet, you have not my dreams.'