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

[nineveh_uk]

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.'

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I am particularly happy that it really requires very little research and is potentially publishable (if it worked), as opposed to e.g. requiring me to find out about domestic life in Norway in WWII and not having a cat in hell's chance of getting it onto the shelf in Waterstone's.