I was hooked when I saw the blurb, like Malory Towers for grown-ups, and it really is. Maggie Adair is a schoolteacher from Glasgow who swapped her rough inner city Glasgow comprehensive school for a position as English teacher at an exclusive girls' boarding school called Downey House in Cornwall. I have to confess I binge-read all three books in a few days so my recollection of the events of individual books is a little hazy - this is the one with the American schoolgirl and Fliss' crush on her big sister's friend - but I know I loved them. So if you wished that Enid Blyton had written books for adults then this lovely series could be the one for you.