After a difficult term (Excitements at the Chalet School), Karen goes home to the Tiernsee for the Easter holidays, and encounters a face from the past who will change her life for ever. Following her subsequent departure from the Chalet School, her place is taken by someone whose ideas on employment terms and conditions are very different from those in place at both the school and Freudesheim. Gretchen, the eldest daughter of Marie and Andreas, then tells the story of her childhood and youth. Later, at a conference at the Schloss Wertheim, attended by all the major characters from the previous drabbles, Gretchen, David Russell and Daisy and Laurie Rosomon all make life-changing decisions; and David and Gretchen's lives both then change again. Primula Garden also decides to change her life. Con Maynard and Ricki Fry then visit the Tiernsee, where several of the major characters from earlier drabbles are living, and the most painful episodes of the Chalet School's past are revisited. There are also some shorter drabbles which fit into the same universe, including the reaction of the Russell-Venables family to Margot's death; and the drabbles are all listed in universe-chronological order rather than the order in which they were written.
Categories: Ste Therese's House
Characters: Anna Pfeiffen, Con Maynard, Daisy Venables, David Russell, Jem Russell, Karen, Laurie Rosomon, Madge (Bettany) Russell, OC, Primula Mary Venables, Richenda Fry
School Period: Armishire, Future, Guernsey, St Briavel's, Switzerland, Tyrol
School Name: Chalet School
Genre: Alternate Universe, Domestic, Drama, Family, Romance
Parent Series: None
Stories: 16
Series Type: Closed
One Tyrolean winter, Jem Russell and Andreas Monier both find the women of their dreams. Main characters - Jem Russell, Andreas Monier, Madge Bettany, Marie Pfeifen.
Categories: Ste Therese's House
Characters: Jem Russell, Madge (Bettany) Russell
School Period: Tyrol
School Name: Chalet School
Genre: Humour, Romance
Series: (I'm working on a title for the series!)
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 9303 Read Count: 2500
The Pfeifen-Monier family mark All Saints' Day 1937 in the traditional way, little knowing what 1938 will bring.
Categories: Ste Therese's House
Characters: None
School Period: Tyrol
School Name: Chalet School
Genre: Family
Series: (I'm working on a title for the series!)
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 3289 Read Count: 2124
Categories: Ste Therese's House
Characters: Madge (Bettany) Russell, Rosalie Dene
School Period: Guernsey
School Name: Chalet School
Genre: Friendship
Series: (I'm working on a title for the series!)
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 2239 Read Count: 1314
The family and friends of Margot Venables try to come to terms with her death.
Categories: St Mildred's House
Characters: None
School Period: Guernsey
School Name: Chalet School
Genre: Angst
Series: (I'm working on a title for the series!)
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 17239 Read Count: 3218
Not even the Blitz can stop a special visitor from Lapland from making it to the Round House on Christmas Eve.
Categories: St Scholastika's House
Characters: Bride Bettany, Daisy Venables, David Russell, Jackie Bettany, Peggy Bettany, Primula Mary Venables, Rix Bettany, Sybil Russell
School Period: Armishire
School Name: Chalet School
Genre: Family, War
Series: (I'm working on a title for the series!)
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 1737 Read Count: 1648
Jem is moved by the sight of old schoolfriends' names on the war memorial at Winchester.
Categories: Ste Therese's House
Characters: David Russell, Jem Russell, Madge (Bettany) Russell
School Period: None
School Name: Chalet School
Genre: Family, War
Series: (I'm working on a title for the series!)
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 2755 Read Count: 1933
Categories: Ste Therese's House
Characters: David Russell, Primula Mary Venables
School Period: Switzerland
School Name: Chalet School
Genre: Family
Series: (I'm working on a title for the series!)
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 2218 Read Count: 881
Painful memories have kept Karen away from the Tiernsee for many years but, after a difficult term, she returns there for the Easter holidays between Excitements and Coming of Age. Were the events of the past really all they seemed, and will she yet find true happiness?
Categories: Ste Therese's House
Characters: Anna Pfeiffen, Karen, OC
School Period: Switzerland
School Name: Chalet School
Genre: Alternate Universe, Romance
Series: (I'm working on a title for the series!)
Chapters: 10 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 41819 Read Count: 16331
Karen is blissfully happy in her new life, but her successor at the Chalet School isn't happy at all with the way that the domestic staff are treated either there or at Freudesheim, and is determined to bring about change by whatever means are necessary.
Categories: Ste Therese's House
Characters: Anna Pfeiffen, Hilda Annersley, Jo (Bettany) Maynard, Karen, Madge (Bettany) Russell, OC
School Period: Switzerland
School Name: Chalet School
Genre: Alternate Universe, Drama, School Story
Series: (I'm working on a title for the series!)
Chapters: 15 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 52514 Read Count: 28270
Gretchen Monier, daughter of Marie and Andreas, tells the story of her childhood asnd young adulthood.
Categories: Ste Therese's House
Characters: OC
School Period: Armishire, Future, Guernsey, St Briavel's, Switzerland, Tyrol
School Name: Chalet School
Genre: Alternate Universe
Series: (I'm working on a title for the series!)
Chapters: 12 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 84061 Read Count: 13998
Daisy Rosomon was once an award-winning doctor, but now she's a housewife - is she really happy with her life or is it time for change? Her cousin David Russell's expected to succeed his father as head of the San, but is it really what he wants? Meanwhile, Gretchen Monier is busy with her career, but does she want something else from life as well?
Categories: Ste Therese's House
Characters: Daisy Venables, David Russell, Gisela (Marani) Mensch, Jem Russell, Karen, Laurie Rosomon, Madge (Bettany) Russell, OC
School Period: Future
School Name: Chalet School
Genre: Alternate Universe, Domestic, Family, Romance
Series: (I'm working on a title for the series!)
Chapters: 11 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 51377 Read Count: 14054
David and Gretchen have been corresponding ever since David's visit to Austria in Shaking off the chains, but how do they really feel about each other and how will their respective families react when they find out?
Categories: Ste Therese's House
Characters: David Russell, Jem Russell, Karen, Madge (Bettany) Russell, OC
School Period: Future
School Name: Chalet School
Genre: Alternate Universe, Family, Romance
Series: (I'm working on a title for the series!)
Chapters: 18 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 78651 Read Count: 23457
David and Gretchen, expecting their first child, spend their first Christmas together as a married couple.
Categories: Ste Therese's House
Characters: David Russell, Karen, OC
School Period: Future
School Name: Chalet School
Genre: Alternate Universe, Domestic
Series: (I'm working on a title for the series!)
Chapters: 6 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 16326 Read Count: 7161
Primula Garden, née Venables, has always been overshadowed by her sister and cousins. Now it's her turn to make her mark on life.
Categories: Ste Therese's House
Characters: Daisy Venables, David Russell, Jem Russell, Karen, Laurie Rosomon, Madge (Bettany) Russell, OC, Primula Mary Venables
School Period: Future
School Name: Chalet School
Genre: Alternate Universe, Family
Series: (I'm working on a title for the series!)
Chapters: 10 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 44460 Read Count: 11098
Over a quarter of a century has passed since the events of that day in Spartz precipitated the Chalet School's departure from Tyrol, but, as Innsbruck prepares to host the 1964 Winter Olympics, the events of all those years before are still looming large in many people's lives.
Categories: Ste Therese's House
Characters: Con Maynard, David Russell, Gisela (Marani) Mensch, Gottfried Mensch, Karen, OC, Richenda Fry, Robin Humphries
School Period: Guernsey
School Name: Chalet School
Genre: Alternate Universe, War
Series: (I'm working on a title for the series!)
Chapters: 19 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 69412 Read Count: 24323
Categories: Ste Therese's House
Characters: David Russell, Jem Russell, Madge (Bettany) Russell, Sybil Russell
School Period: Future
School Name: Chalet School
Genre: Family, Seasonal
Series: (I'm working on a title for the series!)
Chapters: 4 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 4149 Read Count: 4401